STILL RUNNING THE GAUNTLET ON THE RIVER. 467 
The islanders were hostilely alert and ready, but, 
spurred on by our terror of the falls, we drove our 
vessels straight on to the bank, about 500 feet above 
the falling water. In fifteen minutes we had formed a 
rude camp, and enclosed it by a slight brushwood fence, 
wdiile the islanders, deserting the island, crossed over to 
their howling, yelling friends on the left bank. In a 
small village close to our camp we found an old lady, of 
perhaps sixty -five years of age, who was troubled with 
a large ulcer in her foot, and had therefore been unable 
to escape. She was a very decent creature, and we 
carried her to our camp, where, by dressing her foot, 
and paying her kind attentions, we succeeded in making 
her very communicative. But Katembo could under- 
stand only very few words of her speech, which proved 
to me that we were rapidly approaching lands where no 
dialect that we knew would be available. 
We managed to learn, however, that the name of the 
island was Cheandoali, or Kewandoah, of the Baswa 
tribe ; that the howling savages on the left bank were 
the renowned Bakumu — cannibals, and most warlike ; 
that the Bakumu used bows and arrows, and were the 
tribe that had driven the Baswa long ago to seek refuge 
on these islands. When we asked her the name of the 
river, she said Lumami was the name of the left branch, 
and the Lowwa of the right branch. She gave the 
word Kukeya as indicating the left bank, and Ngyeyeh 
for the right bank. Waki-biano, she said, was the 
name of the large island which we had passed when we 
saw the villages of the Baswa below the first cataract. 
The words Ubi, or Eybiteri, we understood her to 
employ for the Falls as being utterly impassable. 
During the morning of the 9th we explored the island 
of Cheandoah, wdiich was much longer than we at first 
supposed. It was extremely populous, and contained 
five villages. We discovered an abundance of spears 
here and ironware of all kinds used by the natives, such 
as knives, hammers, hatchets, tweezers, anvils of iron, 
or, in other words, inverted hammers, borers, hole- 
burners, fish-hooks, darts, iron rods ; all the spears 
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