We halted for a month at N'Gandu, at the end of which period, leaving a post with two officers behind us, we resumed our march towards Katanga, following the ridge of the watershed between the Lomami and the Lubefu. We passed the Two Mountains, seen from a distance by Weissman. Seen from a point a mile away, it is almost impossible to believe that one of them is not a castle built by human hands, the vast square blocks of grey rock having all the look of old masonry. After six days' march we arrived at Kabinda, Lupungu's capital, at which point Dhanis was obliged to return to Lusambo.

Kabinda is in 6° south and 24° 35' east, and is built on a hill. Its chief industry is the making of native cloth out of palm fibre. Pieces of this cloth, about eighteen inches square, called Madebas, serve as money at Kasongo on the