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The March to Banza Nkulu . 
collectively known as Zunga Nuapozo; the clear¬ 
way is between them and the southern bank, 
which is partly provided with a backwater; the 
northern three quarters of the bed show something 
like a scour and a rapid. Zunga chya Ingololo, 
the northernmost and smallest, bears a single tree, 
and projects a bar far into the stream : the 
central and westernmost is a rock with a canoe 
passage between it and the southern and largest, 
Zunga chya Tuvi. The latter has three tree- 
clumps; and a patch of clean white sand on its 
western side measures the daily rise of the water, 
eight inches to a foot, and shows the highest level of 
the flood, here twelve to thirteen feet. The fisher¬ 
men use it as a drying-ground for their game. They 
also crowd every day to two sandy covelets on 
the southern bank, separated by a tongue of rough 
boulders. Here naked urchins look on whilst 
their fathers work, or aid in drying the nets, or lie 
prone upon the sand, exposing their backs to the 
broiling sun. The other denizens of the place are 
fish-eagles, who sit en faction upon the topmost 
branches of withered trees. I saw only two kinds 
of fish, one small as a minnow, and the other ap¬ 
proaching the size of a herring. Up stream they 
are said to be much larger. They are not salted, 
but smoked or sun-dried when the weather serves : 
stuffed with chillies and fried with oil, they are good 
eating as the Kinnam of the Gold Coast. 
