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intellectual man, who knew how to make life at his 
station most agreeable for his guests. 
To his initiative the entire present construction and . 
arrangement of the buildings are due. There are three 
houses for Europeans, many capacious brick-built stores, 
and quite a large “coloured” town of Zanzibari, Kabinda, 
and other native huts. The making of sunburnt-bricks 
_ from the surrounding soil has turned out very successful, 
and the bricks thus made are better adapted for the 
construction of durable buildings than wood, which is so 
liable to the attacks of white ants, or stone which is 
both costly and damp-retaining. 
Manyanga was the scene of the only serious disturbance 
which has as yet taken place between the expedition of 
Mr. Stanley and the natives. While the former was away 
at Stanley Pool, dragging his boats to the upper river, the 
numerous natives of this well-populated district picked a 
quarrel with the little garrison of the station in the hope 
of finding it an easy prey. The dispute is said to have 
first arisen in a “question de pores.” That is to say, that 
the natives complained that the pigs of the station played 
havoc with their fields of manioc and maize; perhaps they 
did, but the chief of the station (the predecessor of Nilis) 
was quite willing to indemnify the natives for any harm 
his pigs may have occasioned to their crops had they not 
‘taken the law into their own hands and carried off the pigs. 
‘It was, in fact, for them nothing but an excuse for a 
general plunder they had long been meditating; for we 
are no longer in the district of the “Congo” people proper 
—the gentle, indolent race of Vivi and Isangila—but in 
the country of the much fiercer and more energetic Ba- 
sundi, the country of “ Sundi” heard of by Tuckey, a tribe 
who long stood between the races of the interior Congo 
basin and the traders of the coast. However, they in this 
case found out their mistake. The besieged garrison 
sallied out with spirit, drove away the host of attacking 
natives, and burnt down their villages in reprisals. Then 
the natives, quickly recognising the only thing they bow 
to—superior force—came to terms, and paid a fine in land 
ISANGILA TO MANYANGA. 93 
