140 Up the Congo to Banza Nokki . 
some 700 yards broad, and the yellow sun-burnt 
trough-sides. A little further on, at 2 p.m., the 
canoe-men halted beyond a sandy point with two 
large “ Bondeiro ” trees, and declared their part of 
the bargain to have been fulfilled. “ Bonderro ” 
is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, 
the calabash, or adansonia ( digitata f) : the other 
baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda 
and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who 
describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge 
trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. 
Thus the “Condo Sonio” of the Chart should be 
“ Nkondo Sonho,” the latter a proper name. It 
is seldom that we find trees turned to all the uses 
of which they are capable : the Congo people 
despise the nutritious and slightly laxative flour of 
the “ monkey bread,” and the young leaves are 
not used as pickles; the bast is not valued for 
cloth and ropes, nor are the boles cut into cisterns. 
As will be seen, we ought to have insisted upon 
being paddled to Kala cliff and bight, the Mayumba 
Bay of the Chart, where the bed trends west-east, 
and shows the lowest rapids: the First Congo 
Expedition went up even higher. At Nkongo ka 
Lunga, the point marked by two calabashes, we 
inquired for the Nokki Congo, of which we had 
heard at Chisalla, and which still exists upon the 
chart,—districts and villages being often con¬ 
founded. All laughed, and declared that the 
