Chap. XXIII. 
THE KASAI AND QUANGO. 
457 
I was always anxious to transmit an account of my discoveries on 
every possible occasion, lest, anytliing happening in the country 
to wliich I was going, they should be enthely lost. I also fondly 
expected a packet of letters and papers which my good angel at 
Loanda would be sure to send, if they came to hand, but I after¬ 
wards found that, though he had. offered a large sum to any one 
who would return with an assurance of having dehvered the last 
packet he sent, no one followed me with it to Cabango. The 
unwearied attentions of this good Englishman, from his first 
welcome to me when, a weary, dejected, and worn-down stranger, 
I arrived at liis residence, and his whole subsequent conduct, will 
be held in lively remembrance by me to my dying day. 
Several of the native traders here having visited the country of 
Luba, lying far to the north of this, and there being some visitors 
also from the toTO of Mai, which is situated far down the Kasai, 
I picked up some mformation respecting those distant parts. In 
going to the town of Mai the traders crossed only two large rivers, 
the Loajima and Chihombo. The Kasai flows a httle to the east 
of the town of Mai, and near it there is a large waterfall. They 
describe the Kasai as being there of very great size, and that it 
thence bends round to the west. On asking an old man, who was 
about to retmm to his chief Mai, to imagine himself standing 
at his home, and point to the confluence of the Quango and 
Kasai, he immediately tmmed, and, pointing to the westward, said, 
“ Wlien we travel five days (thirty-five or forty miles) in that 
dhection, we come to it.” He stated also that the Kasai received 
another river, named the Lubilash. There is but one opinion 
among the Balonda respecting the Kasai and Quango. They inva¬ 
riably describe the Kasai as receiving the Quango, and, beyond 
the confluence, assuming the name of Zaire or Zerezere. And 
the Kasai, even previous to the junction, is much larger than the 
Quango, from the numerous branches it receives. Besides those 
we have already crossed, there is the Chihombo at Cabango; 
and, forty-two miles beyond this, eastward, runs the Kasai itself; 
fourteen miles beyond that the Kaunguesi; then, forty-two miles 
further east, flows the Lolua; besides numbers of Httle streams, 
aU of which contribute to swell the Kasai. 
About thirty-four miles east of the Lolua, or a hundred and 
thirty-two miles E.N.E. of Cabango, stands the town of Matiamvo, 
