Ten years in Equatoria; . or all that concerns the rivers he hasexplored. The last explorations of Captains Roget and Beckerthrow the longed-for light on the problem concerning the riverWelle-Makua. From Itembo on the Congo, Capt. Roget followed the course ofGrenfells Itimbiri river, and, crossing it, reached the Welle at ashort distance from Ali Kobbo, where he established a mihtarypost of the Congo State, with Lieut. Milz as commander of asmall garrison. Capt. Becker, starting from Yambuya, went up the navigablepart of. the Aruwimi river, took a direction, and then THE WELLE-MAKUA. 15
Ten years in Equatoria; . or all that concerns the rivers he hasexplored. The last explorations of Captains Roget and Beckerthrow the longed-for light on the problem concerning the riverWelle-Makua. From Itembo on the Congo, Capt. Roget followed the course ofGrenfells Itimbiri river, and, crossing it, reached the Welle at ashort distance from Ali Kobbo, where he established a mihtarypost of the Congo State, with Lieut. Milz as commander of asmall garrison. Capt. Becker, starting from Yambuya, went up the navigablepart of. the Aruwimi river, took a direction, and then THE WELLE-MAKUA. 157 crossed the rivers Lulu and Itimbiri, called also Loika, Rubi orLubi. A little below the Timda rapids, where the missionary Grenfellstopped in 1881, the Itimbiri receives the Uiketti (called by Junker,Rikitti), a river which at first flowing from west to east, soonafter runs southwards to the Itimbiri. Where Captain Becker left the Riketti, it was about 16-5 feet(50 metres) wide, and navigable for boats. The two Belgian. DR. JLXKER. explorers accomplished their journey through thick forests, which,as they drew near the Welle-Makua, became thinner, with gapshere and there. Captain Beckers journey from the Aruwimi to the Welle-Makuaoccupied twenty-four days. The source of the Welle is on the range of mountains rising tothe west of Wadelai, at about 62 miles (100 kilometres) from that 158 TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA. place. It flows in a direction through the Kalika country,and then turning to the west crosses the region of the Loggowhere it assumes the name of Obi, and passing through thecountry inhabited by the Sandeh tribe, after having touchedMambettu-land, it is called Kibali. The Sandeh, however, dis-tinguish it for the most part by the one name ]\Iakua. The riverat this point has a considerable flow of water, and runs betweenhigh banks, in a tortuous manner, but later on, after widening andforming small islands, influenced by the land, it becomes, incertain places, very
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