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or Kintamo, where they remained two days, but finding that the 
natives did not wish them to stop, they went on by land to 
Nehasha or Kinshasha, where the natives were even worse, owing 
probably to a misunderstanding. This appears to be the locality 
f M. de Brazza’s station, and notwithstanding all that the French 
sergeant in charge said, the natives, finding that Mr. Crudgington 
and his companions were not Frenchmen, could not be persuaded 
that they were not enemies. They accordingly made the best of 
their way back to the opposite side of the river and shortly after- 
wards commenced their return journey, which was accomplished 
in fifteen days, partly by land and partly by water. 
e expedition now proposes, after consultation with Mr. Stan- 
ley, to use his road as far as Isangila, his furthest station, thirty 
miles above Vivi, and then to place a steel boat on the river above 
the falls at that point. It is hoped that the navigation will be un- 
interrupted above Isangila, except at two or three places where 
the boat will have to be taken round the cataracts. Mr. Stanley 
himself contemplates adopting this course also, as above Isangila 
is a very troublesome tribe, named Basundi. He has a steam 
launch and two steel whale-boats above the falls. He is now 
awaiting the arrival of a reinforcement of seventy-two natives 
from Zanzibar. 
Mr. Richards, of the Livingstone (Congo) Inland Mission, has 
recently visited two towns, a short distance from Banza Montiko, 
where no Europeans had hitherto been. One of them he describes 
as neat and orderly in its arrangement. He heard of others fur- 
