io The German Expedition. 
promisingly writes it, “ Tschinschonkscho.” It is 
within easy distance of the Chiloango or “ Luiza 
Loango” River; and its port, Landana in Cabinda- 
land, has become a thoroughly Europeanized 
settlement, with five trading stations up stream. 
An empty Dutch factory was repaired, and the 
house, containing a parlour, three small bed rooms, 
and the usual offices, was ready for habitation by 
the second week in October. 
On October 26th, Dr. Gussfeldt, after shaking 
off the “seasoning fever” at Ponta Negra, pro¬ 
ceeded to make a trial trip, and a route survey 
with compass and chronometer, up the important 
Quillu River. As usual, it has a bar ; within the 
last few years the right bank has been carried 
away by the floods, and some of the old factories 
are under water. The average breadth is 400 
paces, which diminishes to 25 at the rocky “gates ” 
near Kama-Chitoma, Manyamatal and Gotu. At 
29 direct miles from the mouth lies “ Chimbak,” a 
trading station, where Dr. Gussfeldt rested and 
recruited strength for a month. Thence he went 
leisurely up stream to the Bumina Rapids, and 
found the easterly rhumb of the river bending to the 
N.E. and the N.N.E.; its channel did not exceed 
50 yards in width, and precipitous rock-walls rose 
on either hand. At Bumina as at Gotu the 
Quillu breaks through the parallel lines of Ghats, 
