the beds of its feeders filled in February, as soon as the
sun comes north.

_Mem._--In apparent contradiction of the foregoing, so far as touches
the sources of the Zambesi, Syde bin Habib informed me a few days ago
that he visited the sources of the Liambai and of the Lufira. Each
comes out of a fountain; the Lufira one is called Changozi, and is
small, and in a wood of large trees S.W. of Katanga; the fountain of
the Liambai is so large that one cannot call to a person on the other
side, and he appears also very small there--the two fountains are just
five hours distant from each other. He is well acquainted with the
Liambai (Leeambye), where I first met him. Lunga, another river, comes
out of nearly the same spot which goes into the Leunge, Kafue (?).
Lufira is less than Kalongosi up there; that is less than 80 or 200
yards, and it has deep waterfalls in it. The Kone range comes down
north, nearly to Mpmeto's. Mkana is the chief of the stone houses in
the Baloba, and he may be reached by three days of hard travelling
from Mpweto's; Lufira is then one long day west. As Muabo refuses to
show me his "mita," "miengelo," or "mpamankanana" as they are called,
I must try and get to those of the Baloba of Mkana.

Senegal swallows pair in the beginning of December.

_Note_.--Inundation.

The inundation I have explained in the note on the climate as owing to
the sponges being supersaturated in the greater rains, when the sun
returns from his greatest southern declination, the pores are then all
enlarged, and the water of inundation flows in great volume even after
the rains have entirely ceased. Something has probably to be learned
from the rainfall at or beyond the equator, as the sun pursues his way
north beyond my beat, but the process I have named accounts
undoubtedly for the inundations of the Congo and Zambesi. The most
acute of the ancients ascribed the inundation with Strabo to summer
rains in the south; others to snows melting on the Mountains of the
Moon; others to the northern wind--the Etesian breezes blowing
directly against the mouth of the river and its current: others, with
less reason, ascribed the inundation to its having its source in the
ocean: Herodotus and Pliny to evaporation following the course of the
sun.

_1st September, 1868._--Two men come from Casembe--I am reported
killed. The miningo-tree distils water, which falls in large drops.
The Luapula seen when the smoke clears off. Fifty of Sy