may be considered re-established in France for several years
to come. The important meteorological communications which the
Imperial Observatory is daily establishing with the other
countries of Europe, and the introduction of apparatus for
measuring the velocity of the aerial currents and prevailing
winds, will soon afford prognostics sufficiently certain to
enable an enlightened government to provide in time against
future evils."

After crossing the Northern Lotembwa we met a party of the people of
Kangenke, who had treated us kindly on our way to the north, and sent
him a robe of striped calico, with an explanation of the reason for not
returning through his village. We then went on to the Lake Dilolo. It
is a fine sheet of water, six or eight miles long, and one or two broad,
and somewhat of a triangular shape. A branch proceeds from one of the
angles, and flows into the Southern Lotembwa. Though laboring under
fever, the sight of the blue waters, and the waves lashing the shore,
had a most soothing influence on the mind, after so much of lifeless,
flat, and gloomy forest. The heart yearned for the vivid impressions
which are always created by the sight of the broad expanse of the grand
old ocean. That has life in it; but the flat uniformities over which we
had roamed made me feel as if buried alive. We found Moene Dilolo (Lord
of the Lake) a fat, jolly fellow, who lamented that when they had no
strangers they had plenty of beer, and always none when they came. He
gave us a handsome present of meal and putrid buffalo's flesh. Meat can
not be too far gone for them, as it is used only in small quantities,
as a sauce to their tasteless manioc. They were at this time hunting
antelopes, in order to send the skins as a tribute to Matiamvo.
Great quantities of fish are caught in the lake; and numbers of young
water-fowl are now found in the nests among the reeds.

Our progress had always been slow, and I found that our rate of
traveling could only be five hours a day for five successive days. On
the sixth, both men and oxen showed symptoms of knocking up. We never
exceeded two and a half or three miles an hour in a straight line,
though all were anxious to get home. The difference in the rate of
traveling between ourselves and the slave-traders was our having a
rather quicker step, a longer day's journey, and twenty traveling days
a month instead of their ten. When one of my men became ill, but st