way in my power, since he was anxious to get through to Zanzibar. We started on 16th March and struck the Lualaba at a commanding bluff just below the first of the Kasongo rapids.

Here we managed to obtain twelve canoes. We pulled up the rapids, and stopped at Luntumba's, on the left bank, the country we passed being low and rich, and cultivated by the Arabs. The river above the rapids was very fine, running like the tail of a mill-race for several miles. Twenty minutes' above Luntumba's village we came to other rapids, through which the natives dragged our canoes. This they did by attaching creepers to the canoes, by which means sixty or seventy men hauled them one by one up the rapids. In one place I calculated the fall to be about twenty feet.

The rocks in this second series of