. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . o INTO THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY 295 in the forest between the village and the river bank. No-body in the least objected to our doing this, and we foundourselves free to do practically what we liked and to wanderabout the village without causing any annoyance to anybody ;and as the natives upon the eastern shore had promised tofetch us in their canoes, we began to think that our journeyto the Kasai would after all present few dif
. Land and peoples of the Kasai; being a narrative of a two years' journey among the cannibals of the equatorial forest and other savage tribes of the south-western Congo . o INTO THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY 295 in the forest between the village and the river bank. No-body in the least objected to our doing this, and we foundourselves free to do practically what we liked and to wanderabout the village without causing any annoyance to anybody ;and as the natives upon the eastern shore had promised tofetch us in their canoes, we began to think that our journeyto the Kasai would after all present few difficulties, and Iremember that we wrote very cheerful letters home, to betaken back to Dumba by Monsieur Bombeecke when he re-turned after seeing us across the Loange. On the 21st ofMay we bade adieu to this gentleman, whose popularitywith the natives had contributed so much to the cordialityof the reception we had met with among the Bapende, andalso to our introduction to the Bakongo, and conveyed allour loads from the village to the waterside. Some canoesappeared under the bushes of the farther shore and ap-proached us, but the sight of so many packages led theboat
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