populated, but the people did not seem to know anything about the Arabs. They speak a kind of patois of the Batetele language, which a man from Lusuna, in the Malela, whom we had with us, could understand.

We reached M'Bulli (passed by Delcommune a year and a half previously) on the 5th, and here I was taken ill. Opposite M'Bulli was a high range of hills, which seemed to grow higher towards the east. M'Bulli told me that he sent his ivory to be sold at Tanganyika, a journey of six days. Mr. Mohun here took command of the expedition, and returned down the river to Kasongo. S. L. H.