people over a hill N.N.E. of this killed a person out hoeing; if a cultivator is alone, he is almost sure of being slain.  Some said that people in the vicinity, or hyaenas, stole the buried dead; but Posho’s wife died, and in Wanyamesi fashion was thrown out of camp unburied.  Mohamad threatened an attack if Manyuema did not cease exhuming the dead; it was effectual, neither men nor hyaenas touched her, though exposed now for seven days.

The head of Moenekuss is said to be preserved in a pot in his house, and all public matters are gravely communicated to it, as if his spirit dwelt therein:  his body was eaten, the flesh was removed from the head and eaten too; his father’s head is said to be kept also:  the foregoing refers to Bambarre alone.  In other districts graves show that sepulture is customary, but here no grave appears:  some admit the existence of the practice here; others deny it.  In the Metamba country adjacent to the Lualaba, a quarrel with a wife often ends in the husband killing her and eating her heart, mixed up in a huge mess of goat’s flesh:  this has the charm character.  Fingers are taken as charms in other parts, but in Bambarre alone is the depraved taste the motive for cannibalism.

Bambarre, 18th August, 1870.—­I learn from Josut and Moenepembe, who have been to Katanga and beyond, that there is a Lake N.N.W. of the copper mines, and twelve days distant; it is called Chibungo, and is said to be large.  Seven days west of Katanga flows another Lualaba, the dividing line between Rua and Lunda or Londa; it is very large, and as the Lufira flows into Chibungo, it is probable that the Lualaba West and the Lufira form the Lake.  Lualaba West and Lufira rise by fountains south of Katanga, three or four days off.  Luambai and Lunga fountains are only about ten miles distant from Lualaba West and Lufira fountains:  a mound rises between them, the most remarkable in Africa.  Were this spot in Armenia it would serve exactly the description of the garden of Eden in Genesis, with its four rivers, the Gihon, Pison, Hiddekel, and Euphrates; as it is, it possibly gave occasion to the story told to Herodotus by the Secretary of Minerva in the City of Sais, about two hills with conical tops, Crophi and Mophi.  “Midway between them,” said he, “are the fountains of the Nile, fountains which it is impossible to fathom:  half the water runs northward into Egypt; half to the south towards Ethiopia.”

Four fountains rising so near to each other would readily be supposed to have one source, and half the water flowing into the Nile and the other half to the Zambesi, required but little imagination to originate, seeing the actual visitor would not feel bound to say how the division was effected.  He could only know the fact of waters rising at one spot, and separating to flow north and south.  The conical tops to the mound look like invention, as also do the names.

A slave, bought on Lualaba East, came from Lualaba West in about twelve days:  these two Lualabas may form the loop depicted by Ptolemy, and upper and lower Tanganyika be a third arm of the Nile.