PALABAIA AND YELALA., 69 
impressed me as a kind-hearted old man. I have met 
with so many incidents of genuine feeling and sympathy 
from the natives everywhere on the Congo, that I am sure 
they are people of finer natures than the degraded negroid ~ 
coast tribes. That night, soon rested from my exertions at 
Yelala, I set offand walked back to Vivi, ten or eleven miles 
away ; but this journey occasioned me no fatigue, for the 
sun was down, and the glorious full moon had uprisen in 
the soft grey air, shining upon hills, and rocks, and palms 
and native villages; while a feeling of absolute peace — 
prevailed over all, and no. noise was heard but the cry of — 
the goat-suckers and the stealthy rustling of our footsteps 
in the herbage. 
