position, having a large and well-built fort on the right bank of the Lulindi River, and three smaller advanced forts in the direction of Kasongo. He had direct communication by a small bridge (which he had succeeded in building over the Lulindi) with the fort where de Heusch was killed, and had thus a safe line of communication with the large fortified town of Kabambari. Kabambari was at this time held by Bwana N'Zigi, who, it may be remembered, commanded the attack on Stanley Falls station, which ended in Deane and Dubois being driven out, and the establishment of the Arab dominion on the Congo proper.

This Arab success was afterwards ratified by Mr. Stanley, who placed Tippu Tib, the greatest Arab slave-raider, there as governor with almost absolute power. On the 23rd of December a council of war was held, as a