332 PROFESSOR SMITH’S JOURNAL. 
Sept. 5. I made an excursion along the rugged banks 
of the river, which now form small sandy beaches between 
projecting rocks of clay-slate, with three or four alternating 
beds of the above-mentioned blue compact lime-stone. I 
made my way over two ravines thickly covered with wood, 
and shot some pigeons, which flocked all around in great 
numbers. I saw also some partridges, a species of the 
strandpiper, a vulture, which I fired at, and a corvus. Of 
plants I saw a Fern; a Frutex dioicus, stylo 3-partito plumoso ; 
a Frutex spinosus debilis, syngenesia polygamia necessaria, flor. 
capitat ; a Malamba with young fruit, seminibus in pulpa 
nidulantibus. 
We proceeded across the plain up to the foot of a 
fine hill, that limits it towards the west. An excellent 
view of the course of the river here presented itself, com- 
prehending its long course eastward from Condo Inga, 
which we had partly passed, with its. . . . small rocks, 
and the whole plain covered with scattered groups of palms. 
Higher up the river was seen turning northward round a 
point, above which the village Kabinda is situated at the 
foot of the eminences. The northerly very expanded 
reaches of the river soon ceases, and the river turns again 
in a southerly direction, winding between small points, 
and disappearing behind the hills to the S. E., in which 
direction it seems to continue. 
The country towards the north and north-east is some- 
what precipitous, with hills of unequal height, but on the 
south side and south-east side it is more level. No very 
considerable mountain has as yet been discovered in the 
back ground. It is only along the river that trees are 
