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Updated: June 6, 2025
The Watershed between the northern and southern Rivers A deep Valley Rustic Bridge Fountains on the Slopes of the Valleys Village of Kabinje Good Effects of the Belief in the Power of Charms Demand for Gunpowder and English Calico The Kasai Vexatious Trick Want of Food No Game Katende's unreasonable Demand A grave Offense Toll-bridge Keeper Greedy Guides Flooded Valleys Swim the Nyuana Loke Prompt Kindness of my Men Makololo Remarks on the rich uncultivated Valleys Difference in the Color of Africans Reach a Village of the Chiboque The Head Man's impudent Message Surrounds our Encampment with his Warriors The Pretense Their Demand Prospect of a Fight Way in which it was averted Change our Path Summer Fever Beehives and the Honey-guide Instinct of Trees Climbers The Ox Sinbad Absence of Thorns in the Forests Plant peculiar to a forsaken Garden Bad Guides Insubordination suppressed Beset by Enemies A Robber Party More Troubles Detained by Ionga Panza His Village Annoyed by Bangala Traders My Men discouraged Their Determination and Precaution.
We lunched by the roadside and afterwards I got into Dunn's car and resumed the journey. I sent the porters and teapoy men back to Kabambaie. Late in the afternoon we reached the bluffs overlooking the Upper Kasai. Across the broad, foaming river was Tshikapa. If I had not known that it was an American settlement, I would have sensed its sponsorship. It radiated order and neatness.
After leaving the Kasai, we entered upon the extensive level plains which we had formerly found in a flooded condition. The water on them was not yet dried up, as it still remained in certain hollow spots. Vultures were seen floating in the air, showing that carrion was to be found; and, indeed, we saw several of the large game, but so exceedingly wild as to be unapproachable.
Having first mentioned vadhartham, kinasa should here be taken for a tiller. Kasai, meaning butcher, seems to be a corruption of the word kinasa. One need not dedicate unto one's deities any other food than what one takes oneself. In the Ramayana it has been said that Rama offered unto the Pitris astringent fruits while he was in exile.
He was ill with fever, and he could eat nothing but milk. Captain Jensen had six cans of condensed milk, which the State calculated should suffice for him and his passengers for three months. He turned the lot over to the sick man. We found another white man at the first wood post on the Kasai just above where it meets the Congo. He was in bed and dangerously ill with enteric fever.
It was the end of the dry season and the Kasai was lower than ever before. The channel was almost a continuous sand-bank. We rested on one of them for a whole day. I was now well into the domain of the hippopotamus. I am not exaggerating when I say that the Kasai in places is alive with them.
Midnight brought us to Kabambaie and the banks of the Kasai, where I found food and sanctuary at a Forminiere post. Here the thousands of tons of freight that come up the river from Dima by steamer and which are carried by motor trucks, ox teams, and on the heads of natives to this point, are placed on whale-boats and sent up the river to Tshikapa.
The distance through the jungle was exactly seventy-two miles and he covered it, as I discovered when I reached Tshikapa, in exactly twenty-six hours, a remarkable feat. By this time my confidence in the African jitney was somewhat shaken. A new motor-boat had just been received at Kabambaie and I thought I would take a chance with it and start up the Kasai the next day.
I had an amusing experience with one when I was on my way out of the Congo jungle. I sent a message by him to the captain of the little steamboat that took me up and down the Kasai River. In this message I asked that the vessel be made ready for immediate departure.
Having here received pretty certain information on a point in which I felt much interest, namely, that the Kasai is not navigable from the coast, owing to the large waterfall near the town of Mai, and that no great kingdom exists in the region beyond, between this and the equator, I would fain have visited Matiamvo.
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