“_Feb. 20, 1877._—My two friends, drunk no longer, brought most liberal supplies with them of cassava tubers, cassava loaves, flour, maize, plantains, and bananas, and two small goats, besides two large gourdfuls of palm-wine, and, what was better, they had induced their countrymen to respond to the demand for food. We held a market on Mwangangala Island, at which there was no scarcity of supplies; black pigs, goats, sheep, bananas, plantains, cassava bread, flour, maize, sweet potatoes, yams, and fish being the principal things brought for sale. “The tall chief of Bwena and the chief of Inguba, influenced by the two chiefs of Ikengo, also thawed, and announced their coming by sounding those curious double bell-gongs, and blowing long horns of ivory, the notes of which distance made quite harmonious. During the whole of this day life was most enjoyable, intercourse unreservedly friendly, and though most of the people were armed with guns there was no manifestation of the least desire to be uncivil, rude, or hostile, which inspired us once more with a feeling of security to which we had been strangers since leaving Urangi. “From my friends I learned that the name of the great river above Bwena is called Ikelemba. When I asked them which was the largest river, that which flowed by Mangala, or that which came from the south-east, they replied that though Ikelemba river was very large it was not equal to the ‘big river.’ “They also gave me the following bit of geography, which, though a little inaccurate, is interesting:— _Left Bank._ _Right Bank._ From Ikengo, in Nkonda, to Ubangi 7 hours. Ubangi to Irebu 1 day. Float down by Irebu 3 days. Thence to Ukweré 1 day. ” ” Nkoko Ngombé 1 ” ” ” Butunu 1 ” ” ” Usini 1 ” ” ” Mpumba 7 hours. ” ” Nkunda 3 days. ” ” Bolobo 4 ” From Bolobo to Mompurengi 7 hours. Thence to Isangu 7 ” Isangu to Mankonno 4 hours. ” ” Chumbiri 4 ” ” ” Misongo 4 ” ” ” Nkunda 10 days. ” ” First Cataract (Livingstone Falls) 1 day.