148 To Sanga-Tdnga and Back. 
which M. du Chaillu believes to be the northern 
fork of the Ogobe. Their letters (Feb. 12, 1874) 
were dated from Osse in the Okanda country, 
where they had made arrangements with the king¬ 
let for a journey to the “ Qtjebos,” probably the 
Moshebo or Moshobo cannibals of the “ Gorilla 
Book.” The rocks, shoals, and stony bottom of 
the Ogobe reduced their rate of progress to three 
miles a day, and, after four wearisome stages, they 
reached a village of Bakele. Here they saw the 
slave-driving tribe “ Okota,” whose appearance did 
not prepossess them and whose chief attempted 
unsuccessfully to stop the expedition. They did 
not leave before collecting specimens of the lan¬ 
guage. 
Further eastward, going towards the country 
of the Yalimbongo tribe, they found the Okanda 
River, which they make the southern fork, the 
Okono being the northern, descending from the 
mountains ; here food was plentiful compared with 
Okota-land. The active volcano reported by Mr. 
R. B. N. Walker, 1873, was found to bear a lake 
upon the summit—which, in plutonic formations, 
would suggest an extinct crater. East of the Ya¬ 
limbongo they came upon the Apingis, whom 
M. du Chaillu, after two visits, also placed upon 
the southern fork of the Ogobe. The tribe is 
described as small in stature, of mild habits, and 
fond of commerce; hence their plantations on the 
