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across the Loengadye, sleeping on the bank of the Luha, 

 and so to Mamohela, where we were welcomed by all the 

 Arabs, and I got a letter from Dr. Kirk and another from 

 the Sultan, and from Mohamad bin Nassib who was going 

 to Karagwe : all anxious to be kind. Katoinba gave flour, 

 nuts, fowls, and goat. A new way is opened to Kasongo's, 

 much shorter than that I followed. I rest a few days, 

 and then go on. 



25th February. — So we went on, and found that it was 

 now known that the Lualaba flowed west-south-west, and 

 that our course was to be west across this other great 

 bend of the mighty river. I had to suspend my judgment, 

 so as to be prepared to find it after all perhaps the Congo. 

 No one knew anything about it except that when at 

 Kasongo's nine days west, and by south it came sweeping 

 round and flowed north and north and by east. 



Katomba presented a young soko or gorillah that had been 

 caught while its mother was killed ; she sits eighteen inches 

 high, has fine long black hair all over, which was pretty so 

 long as it was kept in order by her dam. She is the least 

 mischievous of all the monkey tribe I have seen, and 

 seems to know that in me she has a friend, and sits 

 quietly on the mat beside me. In walking, the first 

 thing observed is that she does not tread on the palms of 

 her hands, but on the backs of the second line of bones of 

 the hands : in doing this the nails do not touch the ground, 

 nor do the knuckles; she uses the arms thus supported 

 crutch fashion, and hitches herself along between them; 

 occasionally one hand is put down before the other, and 

 alternates with the feet, or she walks upright and holds 

 up a hand to any one to carry her. If refused, she turns 

 her face down, and makes grimaces of the most bitter 

 human weeping, wringing her hands, and sometimes adding 

 a fourth hand or foot to make the appeal more touching. 

 Grass or leaves she draws around her to make a nest, and 



