1887   Unknown author. "Experiences of an English Engineer in the Congo." _Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine_ 864(142) (Oct. 1887).

The narrator is on the Congo River at Pool Malebo (Stanley Pool). He is being hauled ashore from a boat.

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I landed in the usual fashion, being carried from the boat through the shallow water by two natives. The boat, by the by, was that belonging to the Congo Free State factory, and the " Kruboys" who manned her, dressed in neat uniforms, pulled steadily and in good time, to the tune of "One more river to cross!" This air is known to them as "Stanley song" —they or their predecessors having learnt it from Bula Matadi himself, as a "chantee," when hauling the steamers overland between Vivi and Isanghila.
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Just noting the use of "chantee" here by the author.

The song alluded to may have been this one in Higginson's "Negro Spirituals" (1867), a work mentioned up-thread:

pg. 687

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The following begins with a startling affirmation, yet the last line quite outdoes the first. This, too, was a capital boat-song.

X. ONE MORE RIVER.

O, Jordan bank was a great old bank I
Dere ain't but one more river to cross.
We have some valiant soldier here,
Dere ain't. &c.
O, Jordan stream will never run dry,
Dere ain't, &c.
Dere 's a hill on my leff", and he catch on my right,
Dere ain't but one more river to cross."

I could get no explanation of this last riddle, except, "Dat mean, if you go on de leff, go to 'struction, and if you go on de right, go to God, for sure."
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