sickness. By the 14th of April we were in marching order and in very good spirits, a large supply of ammunition and reinforcements making everyone feel confident that better days were in store. On the 17th Commandant Dhanis gave orders to march towards Kasongo, leaving de Wouters with a white sergeant and fifty men in command of Nyangwe, which in six short weeks had been reduced from a well-built town of about thirty thousand inhabitants to one large fortified house with a soldiers' camp round it.

Commandant Gillian and Lieutenant Doorme with their men formed the advance-guard; the Commandant Dhanis, Lieutenant Scherlink, and myself the main body; and Sergeant Cerkel the rear. We marched very slowly, and it was not until the morning of the 22nd that we came in sight of Kasongo. The Commandant — as was usual when