202 FEOM THE NIGER TO THE NILE 



wooden disc of the pelele — altogether making up such a 

 monstrous visage that one doubted the mind could be 

 human that was behind it. The photograph here shown is 

 of the principal wife of the chief. 



We could get very little information from him about the 

 river farther up, but we made out that a day's march would 

 bring one to the point where it divided into two streams. 

 As food was so scarce, we left the next day to retrace 

 our steps, having completed a journey of one hundred and 

 thirty miles up the river. 



