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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION 
Other information we received was that the Watwa 
and Waringa tribes lived on the other side of the 
Lumami. The dwarfs, called Wakwanga, were said to 
be in a south-west direction. The Wavinza occupied - 
the tract between the Lumami and the Lowwa opposite 
to us. The Bakutzi, or Wakuti, live west across the 
Lumami, which agrees with Abed the guide’s story. 
On the right bank are situate Kankura, Mpassi, and 
Mburri ; the chief of the last-mentioned country being 
Mungamba. There is also a tribe called the Ba-ama, 
whose chief, Subiri, trades in dogs and shells. Dogs 
are considered by the Ba-ama as greater delicacies than 
sheep and goats. But we were specially instructed to 
beware of the Bakumu, a powerful tribe of light-com- 
plexioned cannibals, who came originally from the north- 
east, and who, armed with bows and arrows, had 
conquered a considerable section of Uregga, and had 
even crossed the great river. They would undoubtedly, 
we were told, seek us out and massacre us all. 
The Kankore men were similar in dress and tattooing 
to the Waregga, through whose forests we had passed. 
The women wore bits of carved wood and necklaces of 
the Achatina fossil shell around their necks, while iron 
rings, brightly polished, were worn as armlets and leg 
ornaments. 
Having obtained so much information from the amiable 
Kankore, we lifted our stone anchors and moved gently 
down stream. Before each village we passed groups of 
men and women seated on the banks, who gave a genial 
response to our peaceful greeting. 
We were soon below the islands on our left, and from 
a course north by west the river gradually swerved to 
north by east, and the high banks on our right, which 
rose from 80 to 150 feet, towered above us, with grassy 
breaks here and there agreeably relieving the sombre 
foliage of groves. 
About 2 p.m., as we were proceeding quietly and 
listening with all our ears for the terrible falls of which 
we had been warned, our vessels being only about 
thirty yards from the right bank, eight men with shields 
