by a settlement of a vassal of Sefu's. There we arrived on 23rd March, and were told that this was the last point at which the Arabs had posts.

We went on to Kinsali, and then to Kufi. The country seemed very thickly populated in this district, having apparently never been raided. Forests came down to the river banks, in which enormous troops of monkeys were to be seen. To the east, apparently about ten miles off, were some very fine mountains. This stretch of the river is about one mile wide at high water, not improbably two miles if the grass islands be included. The next reach of the river came from the westward, with very high mountains on the left bank, and was free from rapids, very slow, and apparently very deep.

I found no bottom at thirty-five feet. We passed the mouth of the