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Up the Congo to Banza Nokki. 
the land far and wide in search of “ emigrants.” 
He began well; cooked a fowl, boiled some eggs, 
and made tea; after which he cleared out a hut 
that was declared tres logecible, and found a native 
couch resembling the Egyptian kafas. 
We slept in a new climate : at night the sky 
was misty, and the mercury fell to 6o° (F.). There 
was a dead silence; neither beast nor bird nor 
sound of water was heard amongst the hills ; only 
at times high winds in gusts swept over the 
highlands with a bullying noise, and disappeared, 
leaving everything still as the grave. I felt once 
more “ at home in the wilderness ”—such, indeed, 
it appeared after Boma, where the cockney-taint 
yet lingered. 
