They describe the Kasai as being there of very great size, and that it thence bends round to the west.

On asking an old man, who was about to return to his chief Mai, to imagine himself standing at his home, and point to the confluence of the Quango and Kasai, he immediately turned, and, pointing to the westward, said, "When we travel five days (thirty-five or forty miles) in that direction, we come to it." He stated also that the Kasai received another river, named the Lubilash.

There is but one opinion among the Balonda respecting the Kasai and Quango.

They invariably describe the Kasai as receiving the Quango, and, beyond the confluence, assuming the name of Zaire or Zerezere.

And the Kasai, even previous to the junction, is much larger than the Quango, from the numerous branches it receives.