hidden by the forest, which had only been cleared sufficiently to allow the necessary building space.

Most of the villages in this district were burnt before Doorme arrived. When camping in the few which he managed to surprise, he was subjected the whole night to volleys of arrows, spears, and bullets from the surrounding forest, to which it was useless even to reply. He, however, succeeded in taking some twenty-five or thirty important prisoners, and returned to Kasongo after perhaps the most unpleasant ten days he had ever spent. From the time that we crossed the Lualaba we were continuously worried by the native and Arab superstition concerning what they call “ Kim putu “ — “ Kim putu “ being in reality nothing more than a common tick.

I have often had