THE STATE FORCES SETTLE DOWN AT KASONGO — SUPERSTITIONS OP THE NATIVES: THEIR HABITS AND MODE OP LIVING

While arranging the country after having settled down at Kasongo, we found it advisable to make use of those native and Arab slaves who were capable of teaching the others. All the masons, brickmakers, agriculturists, carpenters, armourers, and ironworkers found among the prisoners were given charge of the intelligent lads among the prisoners or volunteers from the native tribes, and set to work, with the intention of eventually forming colonies in suitable districts for these trades.

We even employed their elephant-hunters, who had been taken fighting, and left them their arms on condition that they hunted for us, and taught everyone who chose to go with them what to do.