The Jelabba.

large and wide river that its banks are invisible from one side to the other, and that the natives are very numerous, savage, and warlike. This river runs westward ; ivory is very abundant ; the chief food of the inhabitants consists of maize similar to ours, bananas, ]ialm oil, and vegetable butter.

The inhabitants are cannibals. The Arabs who come down from the north with glass beads and brass wire, exchange their merchandise for ivory and numerous slaves.

From these tokens I am convinced that these Arabs can bo no other than people coming from Darfour, Wadai, and Baghirmi. When asked why they had not continued to make these journeys, they replied that from that epoch until now the greater part of the troops had been engaged in war in the country of Sultan IJanda, who threatened to invade the places they had taken Avith overpoAvering forces. Uanda is a Sultan who governs two-thirds of the western part of Niam-Niam, and has an array of two hundred thousand soldiers. Just lately there arrived a messenger from Niam-Niam with the news that the Sultan Uanda had been beaten, and that now peace Avould be made.

From all that I have been able to learn, this great river to the south of Bakangoi, of which they spoke to me, can be no other than the Congo. If the people going south from Bakangoi had followed the Welle, which passes near there, they would have been able to give us important information about this river ; that is, whether it really flows into the Congo, or continues to run westwards to join the Shari, as the illustrious Dr. Schweinfurth suspects.' The Governor-General of the Soudan would be able to take advantage of the immense resources of These notes are now partly confirmed and partly rectified liy the publications of Stanley, Junker, Casati, and the Belgian explorers of the Congo State.