red, a small tributary higher up, wild flows through red clay, being in flood. At this point, ambassadors came to us from Gongo Lutete with proposals of peace, and requesting the white man to visit him at his capital, N'Gandu.

Commandant Dhanis decided to do so, at the cost of a long deviation north-north-east from the direct road to Katanga. Among the hills, about four hours' march from Mulenda on the Ludi, we found a small circular lake of about a mile in diameter. This lake is supposed by the natives to be haunted. It is, they say, dangerous to sleep near it, drink of it, or bathe in it, and, thanks to this superstition, it is inhabited by two of the largest bull hippopotami I have ever seen. The water of the lake is perfectly pure. On a subsequent occasion many of our people drank of it, and bathed in it for a couple of days, without any ill effects.