1870.] FOUK RIVERS. 40 



the dead ; it was effectual, neither men nor hyaenas touched 

 her, though exposed now for seven days. 



The head of Moenekuss is said to be preserved in a pot in 

 his house, and all public matters are gravely communicated 

 to it, as if his spirit dwelt therein : his body was eaten, the 

 flesh was removed from the head and eaten too ; his father's 

 head is said to be kept also : the foregoing refers to Bain- 

 barre alone. In other districts graves show that sepulture 

 is customary, but here no grave appears : some admit the 

 existence of the practice here; others deny it. In the 

 Metamba country adjacent to the Lualaba, a quarrel with a 

 wife often ends in the husband killing her and eating her 

 heart, mixed up in a huge mess of goat's flesh : this has 

 the charm character. Fingers are taken as charms in other 

 parts, but in Bambarre alone is the depraved taste the 

 motive for cannibalism. 



Bambarre, 18th August. — I learn from Josut and Moene- 

 pembe, who have been to Katanga and beyond, that there 

 is a Lake N.N.W. of the copper mines, and twelve days 

 distant ; it is called Chibungo, and is said to be large. 

 Seven days west of Katanga flows another Lualaba, the 

 dividing line between Bua and Lunda or Londa ; it is very 

 large, and as the Lufira flows into Chibungo, it is probable 

 that the Lualaba West and the Lufira form the Lake. Lualaba 

 West and Lufira rise by fountains south of Katanga, three or 

 four days off. Luambai and Lunga fountains are only about 

 ten miles distant from Lualaba West and Lufira fountains : 

 a mound rises between them, the most remarkable in Africa. 

 Were this spot in Armenia it would serve exactly the 

 description of the garden of Eden in Genesis, with its four 

 rivers, the Gihon, Pison, Hiddekel, and Euphrates ; as it is, 

 it possibly gave occasion to the story told to Herodotus by 

 the Secretary of Minerva in the City of Sais, about two hills 

 with conical tops, Crophi and Mophi. "Midway between 

 .them," said he, " are the fountains of the Nile, fountains 



VOL. II. e 



