CHAPTER XXVII. 



Cameron leaves Nyangwe — Suffers from Fever — Eussund's Village — Tipo-tipo 1 s 

 Camp — Kasongo — Crosses the Lukanzi — Halts at Munza — Arrives at Kilemba 

 — Ihe Villages of Lake Mohrya — Camp burnt down — Continues his Journey 

 towards the Coasu 



DURING Cameron's stay at Nyangwe, he received considerable kindness 

 from Habib ibn Salim, but most of the traders regarded him with sus- 

 picion and were very half-hearted in their welcome. His great object 

 now was to obtain canoes to convey him and his party down the Congo to 

 the Falls of Yellalla. He was told at first that he could get them at the mar- 

 kets, which are held every fourth day at Nyangwe ; but he soon found that 

 the Wagenya (a tribe inhabiting a narrow strip on the left bank of the river, 

 to whom all the canoes belonged) would not sell any for such stores as he 

 had to offer, although their unwillingness might have been overcome if he 

 had consented to buy slaves from the Arabs, and to purchase the canoes with 

 them. He was next advised to send men through the country belonging to 

 the Wagenya, to get boats from the people who made them, and who lived 

 in the jungle, about ten miles from the river. He was unable to go himself, 

 and this effort therefore failed. At the end of three weeks he found himself 

 with only one canoe, which had been given to him by Habid ibn Salim, and 

 which would hold only four or five men and their loads. 



Just at this time a party of Arabs and others, who had been away to 

 the south of the river, making war and fomenting disturbances amongst the 

 natives, principally with the view of obtaining slaves, returned and brought 

 news that Tipo-tipo, a trader, was coming to Nyangwe to arrange peace 

 between Russuna, chief of Marera, and the traders settled at Nyangwe. 

 When Tipo-tipo arrived, he advised Cameron to give up the idea of going 

 down the river in canoes, or of attempting to march along its banks direct 

 from Nyangwe. He told him that if he would go with him to his camp, 

 which was about ten days' march south by west of Nyangwe, guides could 

 be obtained to show him the way to a great lake about fifteen marches west 

 of it, where men came in large canoes, holding from eighty to one hundred 

 people, and the crews of which wore hats and trousers. Cameron had al- 

 ready heard many reports concerning this lake at Nyangwe, and among 



