Chap. XVIII. 
DEEP VALLEY. 
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CHAPTEE XYIIL 
The watershed between the northern and southern rivers — A deep valley —» 
Rustic bridge — Fountains on the slopes of the valleys — Village of Ka- 
binje — Good effects of the belief in the power of charms — Demand for 
gunpowder and English calico — The Kasai — Vexatious trick — Want 
of food — Ko game — Katende’s unreasonable demand — A grave offence 
—• Toll-bridge keeper — Greedy guides — Flooded valleys — Swim the 
nuana Loke — Prompt kindness of my men — Makololo remarks on the 
rich uncultivated valleys — Difference in the colour of Africans — Reach 
a village of the Chiboque — The heamdan’s impudent message — Sur¬ 
rounds our encampment with his warriors— The pretence — Their demand 
— Prospect of a fight — Way in which it was averted — Change our 
path — Summer — Fever — Beehives and the honey-guide — Instinct of 
trees — Climbers — The ox Sinbad — Absence of thorns in the forests — 
Plant peculiar to a forsaken garden — Bad guides -- Insubordination sup¬ 
pressed — Beset by enemies — A robber party — More troubles — Detained 
by longa Panza — His village — Annoyed by Bangala traders — My men 
discouraged — Their determination and precaution. 
24^^ February. —On reaching iinflooded lands beyond the plain, we 
found the villages there acknowledged the authority of the chief 
named Eatdnde, and we discovered also, to our surprise, that the 
almost level plain we had passed, forms the watershed between 
the southern and northern rivers, for we had now entered a dis¬ 
trict in which the rivers flowed in a northerly dkection into the 
Kasai or Loke, near to which we now were, while the rivers we 
had hitherto crossed were all running southwards. Having met 
with kind treatment and aid at the first village, Katema’s guides 
returned, and we were led to the N.N.W. by the inhabitants, 
and descended into the very first really deep vaUey we had seen 
since leaving Kolobeng. A stream ran along the bottom of a 
slope of three or four hundred yards from the plains above. 
We crossed this by a rustic bridge at present submerged 
tliigh deep by the rains. The trees growing along the stream 
of this lovely valley were thickly planted and very high. 
Many had sixty or eighty feet of clean straight trunk, and 
beautiful flowers adorned the ground beneath them. Ascending 
the opposite side, we came, in two hours’ time, to another valley, 
