322 PROFESSOR SMITH’S JOURNAL. 
mixed with quartz, and bearing some resemblance to 
sienite. A shrub with black fruit, which I had seen a 
long time before, was found to belong to Pentandria tri- 
gyma ; anda tree, the fruit of which was sweetish and of a 
blackish colour, I discovered to be of Hevandria mono- 
gynia. Observations on the barometer were made during 
the day. In the evening I went down into a small valley 
on the other side, where I found a lofty tree of an uncertain 
genus, which I had seen before intheswamps. A -- - - - 
was seen at the village, with brilliant flowers and an Apocy- 
num ( Nkennyewumba ). 
On the 20th, the thermometer in the morning at nine 
o’clock was at 75°; at two o'clock it had risen to 83°, and at 
five P.M. it was 73°. On the 21st atnine A. M. it was 71°, 
at two P.M. 81°, and at five P.M. 78°. A young Adan- 
sonia thirty feet high, and halfa foot thick, was found by its 
annual circles,as wellas by its branches, to be thirteen years 
of age; which would seem to prove the opinion, grounded 
on its very great size, of its long life, to be erroneous ; 
and indeed this might already have been inferred from its 
spongy and succulent texture. 
August 22d. After having, with much difficulty got some 
men to carry the baggage, we set out for Inga, leaving 
Fitzmaurice and Hawkey behind, and proceeded almost 
by the same way as on our former journey over Gongala 
to Mansi, across a valley covered with wood and well 
watered. 
Sangala woo is a kind of reed (perhaps an Amomum) 
which is always kept fresh in the house. In time of war 
it is rolled between the hands in invoking the war fetish. 
