Then I shall probably go on up the river and after a month or six weeks come back again.

At Boma I am to see the Governor, one of the inspectors on board is to introduce me, and I have an idea they will make me as comfortable as possible, so that I may not see anything.

Not that I would be likely to see anything hidden under a year.

Yesterday was the crossing of the Equator.

The night before Neptune, one of the crew, and his wife, the ship's butcher, and a kroo boy, as black as coal for the heir apparent came over the side and proclaimed that those who never before had crossed the Equator must be baptized.