We had great trouble with the natives here, and, after working all day to make an advance of threequarters of a mile, Kitenge refused us food, and was very ferocious. From our position on an island we should have starved, but that my men were fortunate enough to catch a cat-fish weighing 200 lb. “We had further difficulties when we left, for the chief would find us neither canoes nor men.

When at last we got started, we found the country very thickly populated, the people turning out in thousands to see us off”. Kongolo, the great chief in this region, had apparently given orders that we were not to proceed. Our paddlers told us that it was impossible to mount the rapids, but, despite the impossibility, we succeeded in persuading them to do so. Kongolo's village was situated at the head of the rapids, where