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above half a day’sjourney from Inga), and he wasaccordingly 
brought forward. Depending on these assurances, J pro- 
posed, as soon as the people should have dined, to set off, 
but was now informed that I could not have a guide till the 
morning. Exasperated by thisintolerabletergiversation, being 
unable to buy asingle fowl, and having but three day’s pro- 
visions, I remonstrated in the strongest manner, and deviated 
a little from my hitherto patient and conciliating manners, 
by telling them, that ifthey did not furnish a guide, I should 
proceed in spite of them, ordering at the same time the ten 
men with me to fall in under arms; at the sight of which the 
palaver broke up, and it was sawve qui peut. Thewomen and 
children, who had flocked to see white men for the first time, 
disappeared, and the banza became a desert ; on enquiring 
for the men who had come with me from Cooloo, I also 
found that they had vanished with their masters ; in short, 
I was left sole occupier of the banza. Finding that 
this would not at all facilitate my progress, I sent my inter- 
preter with a conciliating message to the Macaya, whose 
tenement was outside the banza, and which shortly produ- 
ced the re-appearance of some men, but skulking behind 
the huts with their musquets. After an hours delay, the re- 
gency again appeared, attended by about fifty men, of whom 
fourteen had musquets. The Mambom, or war minister 
