CHAPTER 18.
The Watershed between the northern and southern Rivers--A deep Valley-- Rustic Bridge--Fountains on the Slopes of the Valleys--Village of Kabinje--Good Effects of the Belief in the Power of Charms--Demand for Gunpowder and English Calico--The Kasai--Vexatious Trick--Want of Food--No Game--Katende's unreasonable Demand--A grave Offense--Toll-bridge Keeper--Greedy Guides--Flooded Valleys--Swim the Nyuana Loke--Prompt Kindness of my Men--Makololo Remarks on the rich uncultivated Valleys--Difference in the Color of Africans--Reach a Village of the Chiboque--The Head Man's impudent Message--Surrounds our Encampment with his Warriors--The Pretense--Their Demand--Prospect of a Fight--Way in which it was averted--Change our Path--Summer-- Fever--Beehives and the Honey-guide--Instinct of Trees--Climbers--The Ox Sinbad--Absence of Thorns in the Forests--Plant peculiar to a forsaken Garden--Bad Guides--Insubordination suppressed--Beset by Enemies--A Robber Party--More Troubles--Detained by Ionga Panza--His Village--Annoyed by Bangala Traders--My Men discouraged--Their Determination and Precaution.
24TH OF FEBRUARY.

On reaching unflooded lands beyond the plain, we found the villages there acknowledged the authority of the chief named Katende, and we discovered, also, to our surprise, that the almost level plain we had passed forms the watershed between the southern and northern rivers, for we had now entered a district in which the rivers flowed in a northerly direction into the Kasai or Loke, near to which we now were, while the rivers we had hitherto crossed were all running southward.

Having met with kind treatment and aid at the first village, Katema's guides returned, and we were led to the N.N.W.by the inhabitants, and descended into the very first really deep valley we had seen since leaving Kolobeng.

A stream ran along the bottom of a slope of three or four hundred yards from the plains above.
We crossed this by a rustic bridge at present submerged thigh-deep by the rains.

The trees growing along the stream of this lovely valley were thickly planted and very high.