Gongo was told that he would be shot the following morning at eight o'clock, he appointed Lupungu his successor, and when left in his cell hanged himself with a rope plaited from part of his clothing, to avoid the disgrace of a public execution.

Unfortunately, he was discovered before life was extinct, and was cut down and resuscitated, and, as soon as he was sufficiently recovered, marched out and shot. At Dhanis suggestion he had relaxed his discipline, and had pardoned so many offenders — who before his alliance with us would have been handed over to the others for food — that at one time his power was in danger, and we had to interfere on his behalf. His great idea was to visit Europe, and before his death he had made arrangements to send his eldest son, N'Zigi, to Europe to undo the evil effects of his Arab teaching.