CONTENTS. XIX 



velox — Its habits — ^'y former dtscription of this Animal — Visit to 

 Arjg.iulia — Immense Plantat.on of Plantain-trees — Quarrel with Mpoto, 

 nephew of Oleuda — Difficulties and anxieties — First rumours of the 

 Small-pos Page 114 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE PLAGTJB IN ASEIEA-LAND. 



Breaking out of the Small-pox Epidemic — Noble Conduct of Quengueza — 

 Departure of Quengueza's People — Illness of the Porters^My Commi 

 Budy-giiard refuse to leave mo — Departure of part of the baggage to 

 Otaudo-laud — Quengueza returus to Goumbi — Letters from Europe — 

 Death of Mpoto — Death of King Olenda — His burial — Cemetery of the 

 Ademba Chiefs — Wailing for the Dead — Death of Retonda — Arrival 

 of Iilessengers from Mayolo — Distrust of the Natives — Trickery of 

 Arangui — I am robbed by the Ashira People — Diminution of the 

 Pestilence — Quengueza's message to the people of Olenda .. .. 124 



CHAPTEE VIII. 



FROM OLENDA TO MAYOLO. 



Departure from Ashira-land — Passage of the Ovigui — Slave Village of 

 King Olenda — A Slave Chief — DifBculties with the Porters — More 

 Piobberies — Illness of Macondai — Leave him behind — TheOtando Range 

 of Hills — Picturesque Cascade in the Forest — Cross the Louvendji — 

 More diiEctilties with the Porters — Hunger in the Forest — Men sent to 

 Mayolo for Relief — A Night in the Forest — Myth of Atungulu Shimha 



Koola Nut-trees — Seaich for Food — Meet with a Gorilla — A Hungry 



j^'jo-lit — Unselfish act of the Ashira — Help arrives from Mayolo — 

 Mpegui Nuts — Arrival in Otando-land 139 



CHAPTEE IX. 

 mItolo. 



Arrival at JTayolo — Reception by the Chief — Discovery of more Losses — 

 I accuse the Ashira — Tlieir Flight — Seizure of a Hostage — Gathering of 

 the Head men of Otando — Mayolo falls ill — 1 am attacked by Fever — 

 Great Heat and Thunderstorm — Arrival of Macondai and Igalo — Their 

 Ill-treatment by the Ashira — Loss of Photographic Camera and 

 Chemicals — Surgical Practice of the Otando — A Female Doctor — 

 Matrimonial Squabbles — Mayolo's health improves — V?'itchcraft Ordeal 



