The story of Africa and its explorers . s march across Pogge did not, however, complete thejourney, for, in accordance with previousarrangements, he returned westward fromNyangwe to estabhsh one of the Congo Statestations. Already, in 1875, he had reachedthe capital of the renowned Central Africanpotentate, the MuataYanvo (Vol. II., p. 166), many of the great tributaries of the Congo,the country was comparatively, well known,but on the I7th December, 1881, the travel-lers arrived at Munkamba Lake, which hadbeen described to them as a vast sea, butwhich turned out a very small sheet,
The story of Africa and its explorers . s march across Pogge did not, however, complete thejourney, for, in accordance with previousarrangements, he returned westward fromNyangwe to estabhsh one of the Congo Statestations. Already, in 1875, he had reachedthe capital of the renowned Central Africanpotentate, the MuataYanvo (Vol. II., p. 166), many of the great tributaries of the Congo,the country was comparatively, well known,but on the I7th December, 1881, the travel-lers arrived at Munkamba Lake, which hadbeen described to them as a vast sea, butwhich turned out a very small sheet, not morethan three miles in length. It is fed bysprings, is fringed by sedge and high grass,has apparently no outlet, and lies about 2,230feet above the sea. From this point they madetheir way towards the Lubi, a tributary of theSankuru or Kasai. It is a feeder of theCongo. In this country they met with thewild Bashilange and Basongo, who flockedround them by thousands; but the travellersspeak of the people as friendly, laborious, and. fTr_5^,r;^.. ME. blockleys tannery, leshoma. {From a Photograph taken for the Paris Society for Evangelical Missions.) of whomhehas left the best account accessible.^ highly skilful in all kinds of industry, art, and As far as Nyangwe, the route taking them across weapon-making. Carved ivory, baskets, inlaid * Im Reiche des Muato Jamwo (1880). wares, and iron and copper utensils, exhibiting 14 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. great artistic skill, were araong the evidencesof this. Leaving these interesting tribes and the fertile plains which they in-of the Upper habit, the travellers entered the vast virgin forests, which extendas far as Lubailash, a stream of the width ofthe Elbe at Hamburg. This country wastotally without fruit-trees and, consequently.
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