A visit to Stanley's rear-guard at Major Barttelot's camp on the Aruhwimi with an account of the river-life on the Congo . %. < o <m < H <U of-o X soOS UP THE NGALA. 135 after a sudden fall in tlie waters of the Conso, thatthe water from these channels ran into and not outof the river, from which I concluded—supposingthese channels to be connected with the Nmri—thatthe waters of the Oubanoi were not falling; as fastas those of the Congo, and that the latter river wastherefore receivinsj some of the water of the Nsfiri,which usually went to the Oubaugi. On November 22d, Mr Baert sta
A visit to Stanley's rear-guard at Major Barttelot's camp on the Aruhwimi with an account of the river-life on the Congo . %. < o <m < H <U of-o X soOS UP THE NGALA. 135 after a sudden fall in tlie waters of the Conso, thatthe water from these channels ran into and not outof the river, from which I concluded—supposingthese channels to be connected with the Nmri—thatthe waters of the Oubanoi were not falling; as fastas those of the Congo, and that the latter river wastherefore receivinsj some of the water of the Nsfiri,which usually went to the Oubaugi. On November 22d, Mr Baert started in A., accompanied by me. As my journal of thistrip has been lost, I can only give a very superficialaccount from memory, and what little informationI have noted down on a map of the river which Imade at the time, and still j)ossess. About the middle of the second day, we enteredthe mouth of the Ngala river, which, for the last fivemiles of its course, flows almost parallel with theCongo—its width being about 300 yards. Afterthis, it takes a bend towards the north, and just atthis bend is a narrow cha
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