180 Notes on the Congo River. 
an almost level plain, some 4,000 to 5,000 feet 
high and then flooded after rains, a great water 
parting between the eastern and the western con¬ 
tinental shores. I have carefully considered the 
strictures upon this subject by the author of “ Dr. 
Livingstone’s Errors” (p. 101), and have come to 
the conclusion that the explorer was too expe¬ 
rienced to make the mistakes attributed to him by 
the cabinet geographer. The translation “ despair” 
for “ bitterness” (of the fish ?) and the reference to 
Noah’s Deluge may be little touches adcaptandum ; 
but the Kibundo or Angolan tongue certainly 
has a dental though it lacks a cerebral d. 
The easterly flow was here represented by the 
Leeba or upper course of the “ Leeambye,” the 
“ Diambege of Ladislaus Magyar, that great 
northern and north-western course of the Zambeze 
across which older geographers had thrown a dam 
of lofty mountains, where the Mosi - wa - tunya 
cataract was afterwards discovered. The opposite 
versant flowing to the north was the Kasai or Kasye 
(Livingstone), the Casais of the Pombeiros, the 
Casati of Douville, the Casasi and Cas^zi of M. 
Cooley (who derives it from Casezi, a priest, the 
corrupted Arabic Kissi's !) ; the Kassabi (Casabi) 
of Beke, the Cassaby of Monteiro and Gamitto (p. 
494), and the Kassaby or Cassay of Valdez. Its 
head water is afterwards called by the explorer 
Lomame and Loke, possibly for Lu-oke, because it 
