delightful after the cold and wet of the previous day and night. A couple of hours brought us to the Mwadi river, which, with its rapid current and twenty-five feet depth of water, was a difficult obstacle for the caravan to cross.

With four hours' hard work we succeeded in making a bridge, and everyone crossed in safety, with the exception of some half a dozen of Gongo Lutete's people, who were drowned. After another two hours' march we camped on a plateau called Goio Kapopa, about three hundred feet above the surrounding plain, in which the courses of three moderately large rivers could be easily made out. Opposite us, to the eastward, was a high range of hills. One evening, while lying in camp at Goio Kapopa, some of the superstitious among our men came as a deputation to the Commandant and begged him as a favour to