The chief Mokandira convoyed us hither: I promised him a cloth if I came across from Lomame.

He wonders much at the underground houses, and never heard of them till I told him about them.

Many of the gullies which were running fast when we came were now dry.

Thunder began, and a few drops of rain fell.
_23rd-24th July, 1871._--We crossed the River Kunda, of fifty yards, in two canoes, and then ascended from the valley of denudation, in which it flows to the ridge Lobango.

Crowds followed, all anxious to carry loads for a few beads.