1871.] AEEIVES AT NYANGW& Ill 



This region is low as compared with Tanganyika; about 

 2000 feet above the sea. 



The headman's house, in which I was lodged, contained 

 the housewife's little conveniences, in the shape of forty 

 pots, dishes, baskets, knives, mats, all of which she removed 

 to another house : I gave her four strings of beads, and go 

 on to-morrow. Crossed the Kunda Kiver and seven miles 

 more brought us to Nyafigwe', where we found Abed and 

 Hassani had erected their dwellings, and sent their people 

 over Lualaba, and as far west as the Loeki or Lomame. 

 Abed said that my words against bloodshedding had stuck 

 into him, and he had given orders to his people to give 

 presents to the chiefs, but never fight unless actually 

 attacked. 



31st March. — I went down to take a good look at the 

 Lualaba here. It is narrower than it is higher up, but still 

 a mighty river, at least 3000 yards broad, and always deep : 

 it can never be waded at any point, or at any time of the 

 year ; the people unhesitatingly declare that if any one 

 tried to ford it, he would assuredly be lost. It has many 

 large islands, and at these it is about 2000 yards or one 

 mile. The banks are steep and deep: there is clay, and a 

 yellow-clay schist in their structure ; the other rivers, as the 

 Luya and Kunda, have gravelly banks. The current is 

 about two mi]es an hour away to the north. 



