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ordered thern to fire, and one of the men was shot through the leg. Some 

 of his men ran out of the village the one way, and the villagers out the other. 

 According to his orders a hut was set on fire, and he threatened to burn the 

 whole village unless his party was allowed to pass. On this threat he was 

 permitted to pass without further molestation. He then referred to a levee 

 held by a chief named Kasongo, and stated that one hundred and fifty chiefs 

 met to pay respect to Kasongo. After the ceremony, Kasongo gave a great 

 speech, congratulating himself upon being not only the greatest, but the big- 

 gest sovereign in the world. The scenery of Bailunda was about the most 

 beautiful in existence ; the variations of mountain and vale, and of river and 

 wood, being such as required the rich imagination and brilliant descrip- 

 tive power of the poet and the artist in order to give something like an im- 

 pression of its beauties. Here, to his regret, he found that his men were 

 beginning to break down, and with only three men he had to undertake the 

 task of marching to the coast — a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, 

 which he accomplished in four days. He reached Benguela on the 4th Sep- 

 tember, 1875, just two years and eight months after leaving the East Coast. 

 When he arrived at that place, he was knocked down with scurvy, and was 

 told that had he been two days longer in going down to the coast, he would 

 not have been alive." 



Sir James Watson proposed a vote of thanks to Commander Cameron 

 for his interesting lecture. 



Mr. George Anderson, M.P., seconded the motion. He thought they 

 must express the hope that Captain Cameron would live to distinguish him- 

 self by further excellent services in African exploration. If, for instance, he 

 could succeed in assisting this country to open up those magnificent regions 

 through that grand river, the Congo, he certainly would confer such a boon 

 upon this country and upon Africa, as never had been conferred by any tra- 

 veller before. 



Commander Cameron having returned thanks, Dr. Anderson Kirkwood 

 proposed a vote of thanks to the Lord Provost for presiding, and the proceed- 

 ings terminated. 



Two or three days after, the gallant traveller read a paper on his Afri- 

 can Explorations, before the Geographical Section of the British Association ; 

 Captain Evans, the president, in the chair. There was a large attendance. 



Captain Cameron said " that soon after entering the country from the 

 east coast he came to a large plateau, four thousand feet in height, encircling 

 Lake Tanganyika, and forming the watershed between the Congo and the 

 streams flowing into Lake Sangora. Another table land to the south rose to 

 the height of three thousand feet. The watershed between the two basins 

 of the Lualaba and the Congo at that part is a large, nearly level country, and 

 during the rainy season the floods cover the ground between the two rivers, and 



