The trunk was about four feet high and ten inches in diameter.

We saw also grass trees of two varieties, which, in damp localities, had attained a height of forty feet.

On crossing the Chihombo, which we did about twelve miles above Cabango, we found it waist-deep and rapid.

We were delighted to see the evidences of buffalo and hippopotami on its banks.

As soon as we got away from the track of the slave-traders, the more kindly spirit of the southern Balonda appeared, for an old man brought a large present of food from one of the villages, and volunteered to go as guide himself.
The people, however, of the numerous villages which we passed always made efforts to detain us, that they might have a little trade in the way of furnishing our suppers.