CONTENTS. XIX 



velox — Its habits — My former description of this Animal — Visit to 

 Angonka- — Immense Plantation of Plautain-trees — Quarrel with Mpoto, 

 nephew of Oleuda — Difficulties and anxieties — First rumours of the 

 Small-pox Page 114 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE I'LAGUE IN ASHIRA-LAND. 



Breaking out of the Small-pox Epidemic — Noble Conduct of Quengueza — 

 Departure of Quengueza's People — Illness of the Porters — My Commi 

 Body-guard refuse to leave me — Departure of part of the baggage to 

 Otaudo-land — Quengueza returns to Goumbi — Letters from Europe — 

 Death of Mpoto — Death of King Oleuda — His burial — Cemetery of the 

 Ademba Chiefs — Wailing for the Dead — Death of Petonda — Arrival 

 of Messengers from Mayolo — Distrust of the Natives — Trickery of 

 Arangui — I am robbed by the Asliira People — Diminution of the 

 Pestilence — Quengueza's message to the people of Olenda .. .. 124 



CHAPTEE VITI. 



FROM OLENDA TO MATOLO. 



Departure from Ashira-land — Passage of the Ovigui — Slave Village of 

 King Olenda — A Slave Chief — Difficulties with the Porters — More 

 Eobberies — Illness of Macondai — Leave him behind — The Otando Range 

 of Hills — Picturesque Cascade in the Forest — Cross the Louvendji — 

 More difficulties with the Porters — Hunger in the Forest — Men sent to 

 Mayolo ibr Relief — A Night in the Forest — Myth of Atungulu Shimba 

 — Koola Nut-trees — Seai'ch for Food — Meet with a Gorilla — A Hungry 

 Night — Unselfish act of the Ashira — Help arrives from Mayolo — 

 Mpegui Nuts — Arrival in Otando-land 139 



CHAPTEE IX. 



MATOLO. 



Arrival at Mayolo — Reception by the Chief — Discovery of more Losses — 

 I accuse the Ashira — Their Flight — Seizure of a Hostage — Gathering of 

 the Head men of Otando — Mayolo falls ill— 1 am attacked by Fever — 

 Great Heat and Thunderstorm— Arrival of Macondai and Igalo— Their 

 Ill-treatment by the Ashira — Loss of Photographic Camera and 

 Chemicals — Surgical Practice of the Otando — A Female Doctor — 

 Matrimonial Squabbles — Mayolo's health improves—Witchcraft Ordeal 



