diminished. As the Arabs were driven back towards Tanganyika, they succeeded in enrolling all the fighting men of fresh tribes under their banners. This was the easier, since for thirty years they had been the sole power; Europeans were also unknown, and the credulous natives readily believed the tales spread among them by the Arabs of European cruelties to their subordinates.

Though large our losses and those of our allies, the Arab loss was immensely greater; it is, in fact, estimated at seventy thousand men. This great struggle is, without doubt, a turning point in African history.

It is impossible to even surmise what would have been the effect on the future of Africa had another great Mohammedan Empire been established in the Congo Basin. As things now are, with the Arab power in