the river forms a pool, and looks almost like a lake: here we were told that there were no more rapids, and that we could travel for three weeks or a month up the Lualaba without finding any obstruction.

I am sorry I could not verify this; but it is probably not true. We now paddled for a couple of days past islands. the stream running only about two knots an hour. As far as we could see into the interior, village followed village, the river banks being densely covered with people, brought out by curiosity to see the white man. They were a fine race called Jambulus, fairly well clad in native cloth, the hair of the men being arranged fantastically in various forms. Two splendid ranges of hills rose, one on each bank of the Lualaba; those on the right bank are called Muambo, and those on the left bank Kaloni.