somewhat hurriedly dealt with in his account of the Belgian campaign, the following epitome of a paper entitled “ Three Years' Travel in the Congo Free State,” read before the Royal Geographical Society on 11th March 1895, is given: — Towards the close of the campaign I received orders to survey the Lualaba and Lukuga, from the neighbourhood of Kasongo upwards.

This mission was successfully accomplished as far as M'Bulli on 6th March 1894. It will be remembered that the river below Kasongo had been explored by Stanley, and by others since his time, and that the Lukuga from Tanganyika as far as M'Bulli had been made known by Thomson and Delcommune. My work, therefore, was to connect the surveys of Thomson and Delcommune with those of Stanley and his successors. The United States commercial agent, Mr.