CHAPTER IX 



AARON 



Having arranged my affairs in Fernan Vaz so as to 

 make a journey across the great forest that lies to 

 the south of the Nkami country and separates it 

 from that of the Esyira tribe, I set out by canoe to 

 a point on the Rembo about three days from the 

 place where I had so long lived in my cage. At a 

 village called Tyimba I disembarked, and after a 

 journey of five days and a delay of three more days 

 caused by an attack of fever, I arrived at a trading 

 station near the head of a small river called Ndogo. 

 It empties into the sea at Sette Kama, about four 

 degrees south of the equator. The trading post is 

 about a hundred miles inland, at a native village 

 called Ntyi-ne-nye-ni, which, strange to say, means 

 in the native tongue, *' Some other place." 



About the time I reached here, two Esyira 

 hunters came from a distant village, and brought 

 with them a smart young chimpanzee of the kind 

 known in that country as the kulu-kamha. He was 

 quite the finest specimen of his race that I have ever 

 seen. His frank, open countenance, big brown 

 eyes and shapely physique, free from mark or 



