198 IN BRIGHTEST AFRICA 
twenty-four years before had walked alone from the 
Cape to Cairo—the first man who ever made that trip. 
Sir Charles Ross had directions from Mr. T. Alexander 
Barnes for getting to the Kivu region where Barnes 
had the year before killed a gorilla. Mr. Grogan 
supplemented these directions, for in this very region 
on his famous walk he had found a gorilla skull. 
He knew the region well, for he had been stationed in 
it during the war. With this very valuable corrobo- 
ration we set sail for Cape Town. 
To the Kivu gorilla country from Cape Town is a 
varied and interesting journey. It took us about six 
weeks of constant travelling. The journey from 
Cape Town to Bukama, where we left the railroad, 
occupied seventeen days including stops which are 
quite a feature of South African travel. At one 
place we waited six days for a train. It is worth 
notice that on this entire railroad journey we did not 
see a single head of game—so rapidly has African wild 
life disappeared in the south. From Bukama we 
travelled on a steel barge towed by a river boat for 
a five-day run down the Lualaba which is really the 
upper waters of the Congo. The boat ran along dur- 
ing the day and tied up at night so that we missed 
nothing of the beauty and interest of that part.of the 
river’s course. The bird life was in great profusion. 
Great trees hung over the river and were reflected 
from its placid surface with almost perfect outline 
and detail. There were a few crocodiles in sight. 
We saw one hippopotamus and once on this trip we 
saw elephants some distance from the bank. 
