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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
thrown up, the people of the wooded bluffs of Iryamba,. 
opposite the Lowwa confluence, came over to see what 
strange beings were those who had preferred the secrecy 
of the uninhabited grove to their own loud r oyster in g 
society. Stock still we sat cowering in our leafy coverts, 
but the mild reproachful voice of Katembo, our cannibal 
interpreter, was heard labouring in the interests of 
peace, brotherhood, and goodwill. The rain pattered so 
incessantly that I could from my position only faintly 
hear Ivatembo’s voice pleading, earnestly, yet mildly, 
with his unsophisticated brothers of Iryamba, but I felt 
convinced from the angelic tones that they would act as. 
a sedative on any living creature except a rhinoceros, 
or a crocodile. The long-drawn bleating sound of the 
word “ Sen-nen-neh,” which I heard frequently uttered 
by Katembo, I studied until I became quite as proficient 
in it as he himself. 
Peace was finally made between Katembo on the one 
hand and the canoemen of Iryamba on the other, and 
they drew near to gaze at their leisure at one of the 
sallow white men, who with great hollow eyes peered, 
from under the vizor of his cap, on the well-fed bronze- 
skinned aborigines. 
After selling us ten gigantic plantains, thirteen inches 
long and three inches in diameter, they informed us that 
we had halted on the shore of Luru, or Lulu, in the 
uninhabited portion of the territory of Wanpuma, a 
tribe which lived inland ; that the Lowwa came from 
the east, and was formed of two rivers, called the Lulu 
from the north-east, and the Lowwa from the south-east ; 
that about a day’s journey up the Lowwa river was a 
great cataract, which was “ very loud.” 
The Livingstone, from the base of Iryamba bluffs on 
the left bank to our camp on the right bank, a mile 
below the continence, was about two thousand yards in 
width. By dead reckoning we ascertained the latitude 
to be south 1° 28', or twenty-four miles north of the 
Urindi affluent of the Livingstone, ninety-five miles 
north of the Lira, and 199 geographical miles north of 
the mouth of the Luama affluent. 
