[{170}] These four Ajumba had been engaged, through the instrumentality of M. Jacot, to accompany me to the Rembwé River. The Ajumba are one of the noble tribes and are the parent stem of the M’pongwe; their district is the western side of Lake Ayzingo.
[{181}] As this river is not mentioned on maps, and as I was the first white traveller on it, I give my own phonetic spelling; but I expect it would be spelt by modern geographers “Kâkola.”
[{185}] A common African sensation among natives when alarmed, somewhat akin to our feeling some one walk over our graves.
[{189}] Since my return I think the French gentleman may have been M. F. Tenaille d’Estais, who is down on the latest map (French) as having visited a lake in this region in 1882, which is set down as Lac Ebouko. He seems to have come from and returned to Lake Ayzingo - on map Lac Azingo - but on the other hand “Ebouko” was not known on the lake, Ajumba and Fans alike calling it Ncovi.
[{200}] Diospyros and Copaifua mopane.
[{205}] Vipera nasicornis; M’pongwe, Ompenle.
[{208}] I have no hesitation in saying that the gorilla is the most horrible wild animal I have seen. I have seen at close quarters specimens of the most important big game of Central Africa, and, with the exception of snakes, I have run away from all of them; but although elephants, leopards, and pythons give you a feeling of alarm, they do not give that feeling of horrible disgust that an old gorilla gives on account of its hideousness of appearance.
[{223}] An European coat or its equivalent value is one of the constant quantities in an ivory bundle.
[{241}] Specimen placed in Herbarium at Kew.
[{286}] It is held by some authorities to come from gru-gru, a Mandingo word for charm, but I respectfully question whether gru-gru has not come from ju-ju, the native approximation to the French joujou.