Keeping the chief engaged in conversation, I despatched some of my men with orders to seize the canoes, which they succeeded in doing and in bringing them up to our end of the island, much to the chief's chagrin. In one of the canoes was a fine cat-fish weighing perhaps two hundred pounds, which was very acceptable to the hungry troops. With these canoes, Omarri the interpreter and a few men crossed over to the mainland, the chief meanwhile being detained by us on the island. After a couple of hours they returned with all that we wanted, and we started, under the impression that we had done with Kitenge; we had, however, not seen the last of him.

Later in the day, as I had just passed a difficult piece of rapid, and was waiting at the tail of the next one for the rest of the boats to come up, I saw the natives