despatches, in answer to the Commandant's demand for reinforcements, arrived from Commandant Chaltin at Basoko, and also from the Falls, to the effect that none would be forthcoming. Mr. Mohun volunteered to go down the river to Basoko and bring us up whatever reinforcements he could raise, and he accordingly left us on the 1st of January. On the 8th, Captain Collignon was detached from Gillian and established at Bena Bwesse, in front of the Arabs' two advanced forts. Our semicircle was thus completed; and as patrols could now pass with comparative safety between our different positions, the Arabs could only draw their supplies of food from the left bank of the Lulindi.

They soon began to find difficulty in feeding their men, as, in accordance with their usual practice, they had devastated most of the country through