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to be seen. Immediately afterwards we reached the 
village of Deramo, and marched slowly along, looking 
out for the best place for encamping. Numerous 
deleb-palms became visible behind the shady acacias, 
when suddenly we obtained sight of a broad shal- 
low watercourse, larger than any we had yet seen 
in this country — more than two miles in width, with 
a considerable sheet of open water, where two pagan 
canoes were seen moving about. 
Greatly interested in the scene, we closely ap- 
proached the edge of the water, which seemed to 
be of considerable depth, although a number of hun- 
gry Kanembu had passed the first open sheet, and 
were fishing in its more shallow part, which divided 
the open water into two branches. From beyond the 
opposite shore a whole forest of deleb-palms were 
towering over the other vegetation of lower growth, 
as if enticing us to come and enjoy their picturesque 
shade. The direction of the watercourse at this spot 
was from S. W. to N. E. ; and, according to the una- 
nimous statement of those who had any knowledge of 
these regions, it joins the Serbewuel, that is to say 
the upper course of the river or " ere " of Logon. 
Here we stood awhile, and looked with longing 
eyes towards the opposite shore ; it was a most in- 
teresting and peculiar scenery, highly characteristic 
of these level equatorial regions of Africa. What an 
erroneous idea had been entertained of these regions 
in former times ! Instead of the massive Mountain- 
range of the Moon, we had discovered only a few 
