CHAPTER XIX. 



JOURNEY TO THE COAST. 



Arrival at Monfjon — Magoiiga recounts the Story of our Adventures to the 

 Villagers — lieach Kienibouai — Mistrust of the People — Itestiiution of 

 Stolen Property — 'Magouga consents to guide us to Mokenga — Ueach 

 the last of the Ashango Villages — Passage into Ishogo-land, and out of 

 danger of Pursuit — Magouga's Diplomacy — Arrival at Mokenga — 

 Friendly Reception — Magouga delivers us safely into the hands of the 

 Villagers — My Men exaggerate the Deeds of Valour they had performed 

 — Arrival at Ycngue' — Project of descending the Ogoulou in a Canoe — 

 Lose our Way — Distant View of the Apono Prairie — Igounibie — 

 Eeach Mokaha — The Ngouyai — March toKchiengain's — Cross the Piivcr 

 — Xchiengaiii's Village — Peccption at ]\Iayolo — Operation of the African 

 Law of Inheritance — March to Ashiva-land — Alarm of the Ashira 

 People — Avoid Olenda — Sojourn at Angoaka's — Cross the Oi'oubou 

 — Quengueza's Encampment — Sorrows of the old King — Devastations of 

 the Plague at Gouruhi — Que.jgueza wants to go to the White Man's 

 Country — Descend the Kiver — Arrival at "Plateau" — Gratitude of the 

 Commi People — Departure for England. 



After parting from the Niembonai elder at- his 

 plantation-village we continued our journey towards 

 the west, accompanied, as I have said, by Magouga. 

 About half-past three p.m. we reached the village 

 of Mongon, having taken a short cut by one of the 

 numerous by-paths of the country, made by the people 

 from one plantation to another. 



On our way to JNIongon we were very much amused 

 by a crowd of chimpanzees in a woodetl hollow. We 

 w^ere marching along the edge of a deep valley, when 



