there is a sort of pool; it is not a lake, but a mere broad in the river. The mountains are wooded, and are covered with game, and grassy plains run for about two or three miles inland from the river banks. The natives here are of a new race, the Waujabillio, and speak a dialect of the Batetele language. Here, at Fambusi, we saw the elephant-like Mount President, about twenty miles off, to the westward.

For the next three hours the river was not difficult of navigation. We then came to fresh rapids, where I saw, for the first time, a quantity of grey plover, and also large flocks of wild geese, which were very acceptable to the caravan. We slept in the villages of the Waujabillio. The next rapids were those of Lukalonga, formed of dark-coloured rocks. In the middle of the river was a very large island, thickly populated