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Arrival at Boma . 
viewed far up stream, it passably represents a 
Kaffir’s pavoise. This Fingal’s Shield, a name due 
to the piety of Mr. George Maxwell, is called by 
the French La Pierre Fetiche : it must not be 
confounded with our Fetish Rock (Tadi ya Muin- 
gu) on the southern bank at the entrance of the 
Nshibiil and Sonho branches. I can add nothing 
to Tuckey’s description or Lieutenant Hawkey’s 
tracing of the rude figures which distinguish a not 
unusual feature. Tuckey (p. 97) calls Fingal’s 
Shield Taddy d’ya M’wangoo, and Professor 
Smith, Taddi Moenga (p. 303); the only defect in 
Lieutenant Hawkey’s sketch is that of exaggerating 
the bluff, a mere mamelon, one of many lumps 
upon a continued level. Both rocks are of the 
oldest granite, much weather-worn and mixed and 
banded with mica and quartz. M. Charles Konig 
found in the finer-grained varieties “ minute 
noble garnets,” which also appeared in the mica- 
slate of “ Gombac ” higher up stream, and in the 
primitive greenstone of “ Boka Embomma.” 1 
Beyond this point, where Boma is first sighted, 
lies the large marauding village of Twana. Here 
also a man shouted to us from the bank “ Muliele ! 
muliele ! ” for the Portuguese “ mulher,” one of the 
interminable corruptions of the tongue—a polite 
offer, as politely declined. The next feature is the 
1 Appendix to Tuckey’s “ Expedition,” No. 6. 
