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Killiou) just north of Loango. Not far from its left bank were found mines of copper and lead.
A KONGAS, THE CHIEF GONIONE, AND HIS TWO WIVES.
Along this left bank he continued his march, finding to his great satisfaction that the river, as far as its confluence with the Lalli, flowed without rapids or falls along a broad, fertile, and densely peopled valley, lying athwart the great parallel terraces over which, ladderlike, the neighbouring Congo has cut its bed on its way to the ocean. About sixty miles further the Niari tends a little towards the north and he quitted its banks after having crossed its little affluent the
