All assert that elephants' tusks from that country are heavier and of greater length than any others.
It is evident, from all the information I could collect both here and elsewhere, that the drainage of Londa falls to the north and then runs westward.

The countries of Luba and Mai are evidently lower than this, and yet this is of no great altitude--probably not much more than 3500 feet above the level of the sea.

Having here received pretty certain information on a point in which I felt much interest, namely, that the Kasai is not navigable from the coast, owing to the large waterfall near the town of Mai, and that no great kingdom exists in the region beyond, between this and the equator, I would fain have visited Matiamvo.

This seemed a very desirable step, as it is good policy as well as right to acknowledge the sovereign of a country; and I was assured, both by Balonda and native traders, that a considerable branch of the Zambesi rises in the country east of his town, and flows away to the south.

The whole of this branch, extending down even to where it turns westward to Masiko, is probably placed too far eastward on the map.