An African road--Our mode of travelling through the forests--Farewell to Jameson and the Major--160 days in the forest--The Rapids of Yambuya--Attacked by natives of Yankonde--Rest at the village of Bahunga--Description of our march--The poisoned Skewers-Capture of six Babali--Dr. Parke and the bees--A tempest in the forest--Mr. Jephson puts the steel boat together--The village of Bukanda--Refuse heaps of the villages--The Aruwimi river scenery--Villages of the Bakuti and the Bakoka--The Rapids of Gwengweré--The boy Bakula-Our "chop and coffee"--The islands near Bandangi--The Baburu dwarfs--The unknown course of the river--The Somalis--Bartering at Mariri and Mupé--The Aruwimi at Mupé--The Babé manners, customs, and dress--Jephson's two adventures--Wasp Rapids--The chief of the Bwamburi--Our camp at My-yui--Canoe accident--An abandoned village--Arrival at Panga Falls--Description of the Falls. An African road generally is a foot-track tramped by travel to exceeding smoothness and hardness as of asphalt when the season is dry. It is only twelve inches wide from the habit of the natives to travel in single file one after another. When such a track is old it resembles a winding and shallow gutter, the centre has been trodden oftener than the sides--rain-water has rushed along and scoured it out somewhat--the sides of the path have been raised by humus and dust, the feet of many passengers have brushed twigs and stones and pressed the dust aside. A straight path would be shorter than the usual one formed by native travel by a third in every mile on an average. This is something like what we hoped to meet in defiling out of the gate of the intrenched camp at Yambuya, because during four preceding Expeditions into Africa we had never failed to follow such a track for hundreds of miles. Yambuya consisted of a series villages. Their inhabitants must have neighbours to the Eastward as well as to the Southward or Westward. Why not? [Illustration: MARCHING THROUGH THE FOREST.]