as could be spared to cut Bwana N'Zigi off or to drive him back.

He had to make a detour, the country on the left bank of the Lulindi — with the exception of that on our extreme right at Mwana Mkwanga — being held by the Arabs. The natives in the district were also hostile to us. After a week's continuous fighting with N'Zigi — who was entrenched at Kitumba Moyo — Hambursin was forced to retire. He had lost many men as the result of the fighting and of a bad epidemic of smallpox which broke out in his troop. N'Zigi had, however, suffered so severely that, instead of trying to advance and join Rumaliza, as soon as Hambursin was recalled he returned to Kabambari, and shortly afterwards, when Kabambari was taken, fled to Zanzibar.

On the 30th of December,