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not a little surprised to see an encampment of 

 natives. My Ashira companions soon fraternised 

 with them, for they were Ashira Kambas who, with 

 Dihaou their chief, were spending a few days fishing 

 in the river. The chief received me with wild de- 

 monstrations of joy, and thanked Olenda for sending 

 the white man to him. 



Ath. Passed a wretched night. My bed was sim- 

 ply a row of sticks, each about four inches in dia- 

 meter, laid to protect me from the damp ground, and 

 a foraging party of the horrible Bashikouay ants 

 came in the middle of the night and disturbed us for 

 about an hour, inflicting upon us severe bites. 



Early in the morning we embarked on the Ovigui 

 in a long, narrow, leaky, and cranky canoe, provided 

 by the chief to enable us to make the rest of our way 

 by water. The Ovigui was now a wide and deep 

 stream, with a rapid current. We were nearly upset 

 several times in the course of the first Iioth' of our 

 voyage. At the end of the hour we came to the 

 mouth of the Louvendji, which here joins the Ovigui. 

 In my former journey I was under the impression 

 that the Louvendji falls into the Rembo, but it does 

 not. It joins the Ovigui before that river falls into 

 the Rembo. Below this we passed several Bakalai 

 and Kamba villages, which are built a short distance 

 away from the river bank. Al)out four miles from 

 the mouth of the Louvendji we arrived at the village 

 of Dihaou, the chief town of the Ashira Kambas, 

 where we had to stay in order to obtain proper intro- 

 duction to the Aviia tribe, in whose territory were 

 situated the Falls. 



