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CHAPTER XIX. 



JOURNEY TO THE COAST. 



Arrival at Mongon — Magouga recounts the Stor}' of our Adventures to the 

 Villagers — Reach Niembouai — Mistrust of the People — Restitution of 

 Stolen Property — Magouga consents to guide us to Mokenga — Reach 

 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 Yengue' — Project of descending the Ogoulou in a Canoe — 

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

 Reach Mokaba — The Ngouyai — March to Nchiengain's — Cross the River 

 — Nchiengain's Village — Reception at Mayolo — Operation of the African 

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

 People — Avoid Olenda — Sojourn at Angouka's — Cross the Ofoubou 

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

 the Plague at Goumbi — Queugueza wants to go to the White Man's 

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

 Comnii People — Departure for England. 



After parting from the Niembouai 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 Mongon we were very much amused 

 by a crowd of chimpanzees in a wooded hollow. We 

 were marching along the edge of a deep valley, when 



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