marched to Tanganyika, to open communication with the forces of the Anti-Slavery Society, who had lain inactive during the whole of our campaign. He met Captain Descamps on the road, twenty miles from Albertville. Descamps had just taken command of the Antislavery troops, and immediately organised an expedition and took the field.

De Wouters returned with him, and they joined Commandant Lothaire, who was marching towards the north-east on the Ujiji road, this being the direction in which the relics of the Arab force had fled. They took four forts on the road, which the defenders on each occasion deserted as soon as our troops came in sight, without firing a shot. Arriving at the Lake, a station was formed at Bakari on Burton's Gulf, of which Lieutenant Lange was left in command; the troops meanwhile returning to