"What right had we to come that way, seeing the usual path was to our left ?" He mouthed some sentences in the pompous Lunda style, but would not show us the path; so we left him, and after going through a forest of large trees, 4-1/2 hours south, took advantage of some huts on the Kifurwa River, built by bark-cloth cutters.
_15th November, 1867._--Heavy rains, but we went on, and found a village, Kifurwa, surrounded by cassava fields, and next day crossed the Muatoze, 25 yards wide, and running strongly towards Moero, knee deep.

The River Kabukwa, seven yards wide, and also knee deep, going to swell the Muatoze.
We now crossed a brook, Chirongo, one yard wide and one deep; but our march was all through well-grown forest, chiefly gum-copal trees and bark-cloth trees.

The gum-copal oozes out in abundance after or during the rains, from holes a quarter of an inch in diameter, made by an insect: it falls, and in time sinks into the soil, a supply for future generations.

The small well-rounded features of the people of Nsama's country are common here, as we observe in the salt-traders and villages; indeed, this is the home of the Negro, and the features such as we see in pictures of ancient Egyptians, as first pointed out by Mr.Winwood Reade.

We sleep by the river Mandapala, 12 yards wide, and knee deep.
_18th November, 1867._--We rest by the Kabusi, a sluggish narrow rivulet.