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angles to the right bank. It is shaped like the back of a 

 whale, and the whole is a black mass of volcanic stone, 

 sparsely covered with short grass, and clumps of bush-trees 

 nestle at its base. It must be about 150 ft. high and looks 

 very imposing standing all alone in a flat expanse of grass 

 and bush. I chmbed to the top ; nothing was there to 

 greet me on the almost bare summit save a few dog-faced 

 baboons which stood out clear-cut upon the skyhne of the 

 rock. Ahead to the eastward the grass roofs of Dungu 

 could just be discerned. 



On June 25 I reached Dungu where I was met by Com- 

 mandant Sannaes, a Norwegian. Tall and gaunt-looldng, 

 with aquiline features and heavy military moustache, he 

 has all the appearance of a man who has worn himself out 

 in a tropical chmate ; he looked very ill and he afterwards 

 told me that he had for the last two years been suffering from 

 chronic enteric. But ill as he was he spared no pains to 

 make me comfortable and showed me much hospitahty. 



Before I left he took the photograph of me which is here 

 reproduced. 



The houses in Dungu are well-built, but the whole station 

 is too cramped. It stands at the junction of the Dungu and 

 Kibali rivers and is protected at the back by a rampart and 

 deep ditch. Beyond this are the barracks for the soldiers 

 who number at full strength 400 men. 



At the time of my stay much rubber was being planted, 

 but the soil is poor and does not favour these trees. The 

 largest amount of rubber collected in any one month is about 

 400 kilos ; most of it comes from the country of feokoyo, 

 a big Azandi chief who has a very large tract to the south 



