The Kemei From the Lubilash and the - Lnmani alone, which
of the * •
Argument, form the Lubiranzi, I nave a strong conviction that 800
miles more of navigable water will he obtained, since
the Arabs of Kiburuga informed me that they had
crossed it several times, and navigated many days on
the waters. They knew only of the rapids twenty-
five miles above its confluence with the Congo.
The superficial area drained by the various rivers
above mentioned is 1,090,000 square statute miles,
into which we have direct navigable access by steam
of 5250 miles. This, by passing one rapid, we may
increase to over 6000 miles. The wealth of equatorial
Africa lies in this section. It is bisected by the
equator, over which the rain-belt discharges its showers
during ten months of the year. As we recede from
the equatorial line, either north or south, the dry
periods are of longer duration. At S. Lat. 4° the
long dry season lasts four months, from the middle of
May to the middle of September; the shorter season
lasts six weeks, from the middle of January to the
end of February. At S. Lat. 6°, the dry season is
about three weeks longer in the year.
The population of this enormous area of the Upper
Congo section may be approximately ascertained by
estimating the number of inhabitants at each district
according to our observations, on the right bank and
on the left of - that great curve of the Congo between
Stanley Pool and Stanley Falls, and of the Biyerre,
the Mohindu, the Kwa, and the Lukanga, dividing the
entire area by the belts which were explored.
Eight Bank. Ascending the Congo. The Kernel
Name of District o r Village.
Estimated
Population. Name of District or Village.
Estimated *
Population.
GordonBennettto Lawson) 13,000 207,500
Biver . . . . .5
Lawson Biver to Miken6i 15,000 Bumba . . . . . 10,000
Biver . . . . . J Lower1 Yambinga 8,000
Miken6 Biver to opposite) 10,000 Upper „ . . 8,000
Lukolela .) N g in g iri....................... 5,000
Thence to Bungata . 50,000 Villages . . . . . 3,000
Bukoko . . . . . 4,000 Old Yalulima 300
Ukumira . . . . . 15,000 Bungelé , . . . . ’ 2,000
Ubengo 3,000 Basaka , 4.. 2,000
Usimbi . . . . . 3,000 Boruu . . . . . 6,000
T b o k o ............................ 30,000 Basoko of Mokulu . 15,000
Lnsengo . . . . . 3,000 Upper and Lower Yom-) 13,000
U b ik a ............................ 10,000 burri . . . : . . j
Thence to Irin g i. . 10,000 Intermediate Villages . 8,000
T Jm a n g i.......................
U k e le ............................
12,000 Yangambi . . . . 5,000
5,500 Yaruche- . . . . 3,000
Upoto and Ngomb6 . . 6,000 Yaryembi. . . . . 2,000
L u k u ............................ 2,000 Yarukombé . . . . 2,000
Ndobo. . . . . 8,000 Y a k u s u ....................... 11,000
Ibunda ....................... 8,000 Wenya and Bakumu 3,000
207,500 313,800
L e f t Bank. Ascending the Congo.
Kintamo . . . . . 3,000 212,000
Kinshassa . . . . . ' 3,000 Bunga. ....................... 2,000
Lema . . . . . . . 3,000 Mutembo . . . . . 500
Kimbangu....................... 3,000 I m e m é ....................... 500
Mbama and Mikunga . ...4,000 Marunja . . . . .. 1,000
Klmpoko and neighbour-)
1,500 Mpakiwana .
2,000
h o o d .......................I Mpa . . . . . . .
1,000
To Wampoko Biver . 2,000 Old Bubunga. . . . 2,000
WampokoBivertoMswata 5,000 Yakongo ....................... 2,000
Hswata and neighbour-) 3,000 Ikassa............................. 1,000
hood. . . . . . j V illa g e s ....................... • 1,500
Kwamouth . 500 Yalulima....................... 15,000
Kwa Biver to Bolobo 60,000 Irubu . . . . . . 3,000
Bolobo to Lukolela . 50,000 Mbungu and Islands 13,000
Lukolela . • . . . 4,000 Bahamba. . . . . 10,000
N g om b é ....................... 4,000 Bandu ....................... 5,000
Nkuku . . . . . ] Bahunga ....................... 20,000
B u t u n u .......................1
'Usindi. . . . . . I 28,000 Bungungu . . . .
Isangi. . .; . .. .
3.000
8.000
I r e b u ............................ ; Yaporo . . . . . 4,000
Thence to Mohindu Biver 22,000 U k a n g a ....................... 3,000
Uranga . . . . . 8,000 Yakondé....................... 3,000
Bolomho....................... 3,000 Yârukombé . . . .2,500
Bukumbi. . . 5,000 Wenya , . . . . 4,000
212,000 319,000