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MR. GEORGE GRENFELL has recently made a successful ascent of the great Quango tributary of the Congo. In company with Mr. Bentley, in the steamer Peace, he succeeded in reaching the Kikunji Falls, the point at which Major von Mechow, descending the Quango from the south, was obliged to turn back in 1880. About six miles above the junction of the Kasai and the Quango they found another large tributary, the Djuma, entering the river from the east, which presented so great a volume of water that it was a matter of uncertainty which was the larger stream. A little beyond this the course of the Quango veered round, first south-south-west, and then west; at 40° 30′ S. lat. it had come back to its usual northerly course, and maintained it for the remainder of the journey. The Kikunji Falls (5° 8′ S. lat.) are about 3 feet high, and though insurmountable to the Peace, are said by Mr. Grenfell to be no obstacle to communication by canoes and small craft.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 35, 547 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035547a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/035547a0