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CHAPTER IV. JUNKER AND CASATI. The Welle—Biography and travels of Dr. Junker—The Niam-niam— Dr. Junker and the Niam-niam chiefs—Captain Casati—The Mom- buttu—Cannibalism—Dr. Junker in the Aruwimi basin and at Ali- Kobo's zeriba—Bad news from the north—Junker and Casati with Emin Bey at Lado. Emin Bey and Lupton Bey were not the only Europeans who were blocked in the heart of Africa by the Mahdi’s victories. At that period the Russian, Dr. Junker, and Captain Casati, the Italian, were still farther south, investigating the basin of the Welle. The Welle is the name given in its upper course to the most important of the right-hand tributaries of the Congo; it is a powerful stream, which, in length and volume, may be compared to the Danube; it receives nearly all the water from the region situated between the northern Congo and the ridge-line whence the Bahr-el-Ghazal, the Shari, the Binue, and their several affluents take their source.