CONTENTS XV 



CHAPTER XIII 



THE MFUMBIRO VOLCANOES 



I'AGE 



South end of Lake Albert Edward — Vichumbi — Harte- 

 beeste and wart-hogs — Tick fever — Carried up to 

 Rutchuru — Cream cheese and strawberries — Lions 

 — The Rusisi-Kivu district — 'Life in a Congo post — 

 Buglers — Women in the Congo — Leopold XL's birth- 

 day — Through the Mfumbiro volcanoes — Desolation 

 and fertility — A land of milk and honey — But no 

 water— Pygmies — Plains of lava — Lake Kivu in 

 sight — We reach a beautiful cove - - - 172 



CHAPTER XIV 



LAKE KIVU 



Recent formation of Lake Kivu — Rift valleys of Africa 

 — The Mfumbiro volcanoes from a dam — Kivu cut 

 off from the Nile — Volcanoes still unexplored — 

 Another boundary question — The German post of 

 Kissegnies — -Lavish expenditure — Native fishermen 

 — An entente cordiale dinner — Smuggling — Bobandana 

 — Cannibals — Abuse of authority — Voyage down 

 Lake Kivu — Beauty of the lake — Paddlers' boat- 

 songs — The island of Kwijwe — Otters — Land at 

 Nya-Lukemba - - 190 



CHAPTER XV 



FROM KIVU TO TANGANYIKA 



Payment in trade goods — A multiplicity of fashions — 

 Wanted : a currency — Trouble of recruiting porters — 

 Congo method of carrying loads — The outlet of the 

 lake — Rusisi Valley — Prosperous natives — Prospects 

 of colonization — Tanganyika in the distance — Lago 

 Maggiore — Arrive at Uvira — Daily wind and sea — 

 Cosmopolitan Christmas dinner — \'oyage down the 

 lake ------- 207 



