117 CHAPTER XIV.

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Interpreter killed — Storm — Shipwreck — Kesciu; nf the provisions — -Lost instruments — MaLjungo — Warlike naisic — Two thousand natives — -Flight of arrows — Wad-el-Mek — Cataract — Thousands of hippopotami — Compact with the natives — Message to Anfina — War between Wad-el-Mek and Kaha Kega — Victory of Wadel-M.'k.

Mareh 2-i//t — Wc passed tlic night near a village witli a small port. The natives said we were opposite Foquah and near Faigaro, so we could not be far from Magungo. We encountered another hurricane on the lake, and therefore we returned to the village where we had spent the preceding night. We resumed navigation at six in the morning, but a strong south-east wind obliged us to take in sail. The force of the waves was such as to put us in danger, and so we returned to the usual refuge.

I proposed to my interpreter to land and hold council with the chiefs of the place. He consented, and left us.

As he never returned again, I must suppose he was killed, though no natives showed themselves. I abandoned the place that same evening, and stopped three miles further north, without touching the shore, however, where natives in increasing number awaited us, armed and threatening.

At three in the afternoon the wind changed all at once from south to east. The immense stretch