and were always safely delivered at their destination. One thing ought not to be forgotten with regard to him. When war broke out the Arabs held two of his children — a son and a daughter — as hostages, and when he threw in his lot with us he thought that he could never hope to see them again.

The Commandant, however, as may be remembered, ransomed them from Sefu, in exchange for postponing our attack on Kasongo for five days. When the children arrived and were presented to Lutete, his transports of delight were quite affecting to everyone present. Though this was his eldest son, since he had been five years with the Arabs, Gongo would not allow him to succeed him, but made his second son, Lupungu, his heir, and sent him to live in one of our stations to be educated by us. When, after the court-martial, poor