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is a point projecting from the right bank just above the 
Mansau Falls and Matunda Rapids, which we passed by 
a side-stream without danger on the 13th. Between 
Matunda Rapids and Mansau Falls, we were abreast of 
Kakongo, that warlike district of which we had heard. 
But though they crossed the river in great numbers, the 
men of Kakongo became fast friends with us, and 1 was 
so successful with them that five men volunteered to 
accompany me as far as the “ Njali Ntornbo Mataka 
Falls,” of which we had heard as being absolutely the 
“ last fall.” “ Tuckey’s Cataract,” no doubt, I thought, 
for it was surely time that, if there was such a fall, it- 
ought to be seen. 
Below Matunda Falls, in the district of Ngoyo, are a 
still more amiable people than the Upper Babwencle, 
who share the prevalent taste for boring their ears and 
noses. We held a grand market at Ngoyo, at which 
bananas, pine-apples, guavas, limes, onions, fish, cassava 
bread, ground-nuts, palm-butter, earthenware pots, 
baskets, and nets were exchanged for cloth, beads, wire, 
guns, powder, and crockery. 
On the 16th, accompanied by our volunteer guides, 
we embarked all hands, and raced down the rapid river 
a distance of three miles to the great cataract, which on 
the right side is called Ntornbo Mataka, and on the left 
Ngombi Falls, or Njali Ngombi. On the right side the 
fall is about fifteen feet, over terraces of lava and 
igneous rocks ; on the left it is a swift rush, as at Mowa, 
Ntamo, Zinga, Inkisi, with a succession of leaping waves 
below it. 
There was a large concourse of natives present, and 
all were exceedingly well-behaved and gentle. Three 
chiefs, after we had camped, advanced and offered their 
services, which were at once engaged, and the next 
morning 409 natives conveyed the canoes and boat 
below the fall in admirable style, though one small 
canoe was wrecked. They expressed as much concern 
about the accident as though they had been the authors 
of it, but I paid them even more liberally than I had 
contracted for, and the utmost good-feeling prevailed. 
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