A Visit to Banza Chisalla. 
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Lovers’ Leap of Tuckey. But its office must not 
be confounded with that attributed to the sinister- 
looking scaur of Leucadia; here the erring wives 
of the Kings of Boma and their paramours found 
a Bosphorus. The Commander of the First Con¬ 
go Expedition applies the name to a hanging 
rock on the northern shore, about eighteen miles 
higher up stream. A portentous current soon 
swept us past Pere la Chaise, and shortly after 
noon we were comfortably at breakfast with Sr. 
Pereira. 
During the last night we had been kept awake 
by the drumming and fifing, singing and shout¬ 
ing, weeping and howling, pulling at accordions 
and striking the monotonous Shingungo. Merolla 
names this cymbal Longa, and describes it justly 
as two iron bells joined by an arched bar : I found 
it upon the Tanganyika Lake, and suffered 
severely from its monotonous horrors. Monteiro 
and Gamitto (p. 232) give an illustration of what 
is known in the Cazembe’s country as “ Gomati 
The Mchua or gong-gong of Ashanti has a 
wooden handle connecting the cones. Our pal- 
habote had brought up the chief Mashel’s bier, 
and to-day we have the satisfaction of seeing it 
landed. A kind of palanquin, covered with crim¬ 
son cloth and tinsel gold like a Bombay “ Tabut,” 
it had three horns or prominences, two capped 
with empty black bottles, and the central bearing 
