who had come out of the lesser fort to attack the Krupp — keeping, meanwhile, the larger fort quiet with a few shells. As soon as the troops commenced to take up the position, prior to forming a new camp, the enemy attacked on all sides, but, directly the new position was occupied and shelter thrown up for the men, they withdrew to their forts. During the following two or three days several small attacks on the camp were repulsed, and the remaining shells thrown into the forts. Captain de Wouters, meanwhile, joined us from Kasongo with seventy men, leaving a young German sergeant named Mercus, with twenty men and the sick, as a guard at Kasongo.

A few days later, the Commandant sent an order to Mercus to send every cartridge that could be spared vid the Lualaba and Luama Rivers, and thus to his camp by the rear, the