THE BUNCO RIVER 71 



most of tlic meat, we marched to a village called 

 Bunga Calunga, where we arrived at eleven o'clock, 

 and camped some 500 yards south of the stream 

 called Bungo and about half a mile from the 

 village. This river is probably the same stream 

 as the one called Bungo in the Portuguese map of 

 this district, but, like most villages and rivers in 

 this map, is incorrectly placed, flowing some 

 30 miles north of where it is marked. As far as 

 I can gather, the Bungo stream flows north-east 

 into the River Loando, which it enters near 

 Quitobo camp, where we had spent two days. 

 Into this stream also flow the Rumelia, Quitobo, 

 and Mala tributaries. The Bungo just before it 

 enters the Loando is apparently called the Calu. 



The above description gives some idea of the 

 river system as I understood it from the natives, 

 though their information is probably nearly as 

 wrong as the Portuguese map I painfully tried to 

 use as a guide. 



We struck camp on ;he 20th of August, and 

 marched south-east towards a village called Quis- 

 sondc, where a native hunter who knew all about 

 the game in the district was said to live. On 

 the road we found fresh sable spoor crossing the 

 path, half a mile from where we had left camp. 

 Halting the carriers, we took up the spoor and found 

 it led back to the fields of the village of Bunga 

 Calunga. 



In these cultivated patches we found many 

 tracks of what were apparently nightly visitation 

 by sable, which were ;vt< adily destroying the crops 

 of the wretched villagers. This decided me to 



