TO BOLOBO. ~~ 173 
However, shortly after my return to the station King 
Ibaka arrived, with the ‘most profuse apologies for my 
‘ejectment by his subjects; in fact, he said he felt so. 
bitterly the slight which had been’ offered to one of his 
friends, that he could only be assured of the restoration of 
our former good relations if, just as a form, I would give 
him a present of some blue cloth. I paid this debt to 
friendship, but King Ibaka received evasively my request 
to come and visit him chez lui, although I did afterwards 
make a sort of formal tour of a little village, beg walked 
round the place by the King himself, but not allowed to 
stop anywhere and sketch. 
A few pine-apples are found at Bolobo between the 
station and the native towns, but the fruit appears to be 
rare elsewhere in the vicinity, and we are evidently here 
on the.confines of the district over which “ Ananassa sativa”’ 
has spread. with such wonderful vigour and rapidity. 
Another American introduction of a much later date, 
and of decidedly different bearing towards mankind—the 
horrible little “jigger” or burrowing flea—has just reached 
Bolobo from the coast, though so recently that the natives 
are only just beginning to be conscious of its presence, 
and have not yet siven it a name, » 
This evening was passed lke most others at Bolobo. 
We held out against the mosquitoes just long enough to 
eat our dinner, and then hurried off to bed and the relief 
from these tortures that is only to be found within. 
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON BOLOBO. 
The people inhabiting the banks of the Congo i in this 
district are, as has already been stated, Ba-yansi, but this 
race seems limited to little more than a strip of land 
bordering the river, and does not extend its settlements 
far from the banks. On the eastern side of the Congo the 
race of the interior is the Ba-ntini, who seem to live on 
friendly terms with the Ba-yansi. At Bolobo there is no 
local fetish-man or doctor, and the people there have to 
