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monkey's tail, which I cannot say has its parallel in 

 European fashions, at least at present. 



Jlliic iCih. We left Mokaha at a quarter-past ten, 

 a.m., liaving been detained since sunrise by the 

 effects of the palm wine. Every one of my porters 

 was more or less tipsy ; and after they had drunk all 

 the wine there was in the village they had not had 

 enouirh, but went into the woods to fetch down the 

 calabaslies that had been left on the palm-trees to 

 catch the liquor. About an hour before starting we 

 had a heavy shower of rain, which lasted a few 

 minutes. It was the first rain we had had since we 

 left Mayolo. 



Leaving Mokaba, we pm^sued a direction a little 

 north of east. The ground soon began to rise, and 

 we entered on a richly-wooded hilly country, in 

 which were numerous plantations and villages ot 

 slaves belonging to the head men of Molcaba. At 

 a plantation called Njavi, my aneroids showed me 

 that we were 200 feet above Mokaba. This place is 

 called Njavi probably on account of the plantation 

 being worked by slaves from the Njavi country. 



AVe halted here a short time, for some of the 

 porters were not very strong on their legs. 



Erom Njavi I could see the mountains whei'c the 

 Kamba people live. They seemed, after leaving a 

 gap, to unite with a range on this side. The gap 

 was a continuation of the valley in which flow"s the 

 Rembo Ngouyai. 



At twenty minutes to two we came to the dry 

 bed of a stream with a slaty bottom, which ran from 

 N.E. to S.W. Shortly afterw^ards, we crossed 



