:332 PROFESSOR SMITH'S JOURNAL. 



Sept. 5. I made an excursion along the rugged banks 

 of the river, which now form small sandy beaches between 

 projecting rocks of clav-slate, Avith three or four alternating 

 beds of the above-mentioned blue compact lime- stone. I 

 made my way over two ravines thickly covered with wood, 

 and shot some pigeons, which flocked all around in great 

 numbers. I saw also some partridges, a species of the 

 strandpiper, a vulture, which I fired at, and a corvus. Of 

 plants I saw SiFeni ; a Frutex dioicus, stylo S-partito plumoso ; 

 a Frutex sphwsus debilis, syngenesia pohjgamia necessaria,Jlor. 

 capitat ; a Malamba with young fruit, seminibits in pidpa 

 nidulantihns. 



We proceeded across the plain up to the foot of a 

 fine hill, that limits it towards the west. An excellent 

 view of the course of the river here presented itself, com- 

 prehending its long course eastward from Condo Inga, 

 which we had partly passed, with its ... . small rocks, 

 and the whole plain covered with scattered groups of palms. 

 Higher up the river was seen turning northward round a 

 point, above which the village Kabinda is situated at the 

 foot of the eminences. The northerly very expanded 

 reaches of the river soon ceases, and the river turns again 

 in a southerly direction, winding between small points, 

 and disappearing behind the hills to the S. E., in which 

 direction it seems to continue. 



The country towards the north and north-east is some- 

 what precipitous, with hills of unequal height, but on the 

 south side and south-east side it is more level. No very 

 considerable mountain has as yet been discovered in the 

 back ground. It is only along the river that trees, are 



