OUT INTO THE ATLANTIC. 
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bank above the cataract came over with his little boy, a 
pure albino, with blue eyes, curly white hair, and a red 
skin, of whom he appeared to be very proud, as he said 
he was also a little Mundele. The old chiefs hands were 
bleached in the palms, and in various parts of the body, 
proving the origin of the peculiar disease. 
We received the good news that Embomma was only 
five clays’ journey, rated thus : — 
Erom Isangila to Inga 1 day. 
„ Inga ,, Boondi „ 
„ Boondi ,, Ntabo „ 
„ Ntabo ,, Bibbi „ 
„ Bibbi „ Embomma „ 
We heard also that there were three great cataracts 
below Isangila, and “any number” of intermediate 
“ Mputu-putu-putu ” rapids. The cataracts were Nsongo 
Yellala, a larger one than either Isangila, Yellala, or 
Ngufu. 
There was not the slightest doubt in my mind that the 
Isangila cataract was the second Sangalla of Captain 
Tuckey and Professor Smith, and that the Sanga Yellala 
of Tuckey and the Sanga Jella of Smith was the Nsongo 
Yellala, though I could not induce the natives to pro- 
nounce the words as the members of the unfortunate 
Congo Expedition spelled them.* 
As the object of the journey had now been attained, 
and the great river of Livingstone had been con- 
nected with the Congo of Tuckey, I saw no reason to 
follow it farther, or to expend the little remaining 
* I ascertained, upon studying carefully tlie accounts of the Congo 
Expedition of 1816, that Professor Smith’s account in many respects is 
much more reliable than Captain Tuckey 's. Professor Smith gives the 
river above Isangila a general width of about one English mile, which is 
quite correct, and at a place which the officers reached on the 8tli 
September, 1816, he estimates the width to be about half a Danish mile, 
which Captain Tuckey has unaccountably extended to about four or five 
English miles, that is to say, from 6640 to 8800 yards ! Captain Tuckey, 
according to Stanford’s Library Map of 1874, places the second Sangalla 
by dead reckoning in east longitude 14° 3'^', south latitude 4° 59', which 
is very far from being its position. On July 28, 1877, I obtained south 
latitude 5° 19' by observation. Captain Tuckey is, however, more reliable 
in his orthography than the botanist of his Expedition. Both gentlemen 
have unaccountably passed the largest fall, viz., Nsongo Yellala, with but 
a mere word of mention. 
