after following the men, I took from them the fowls, goats, and other things they had looted, and returned them to him. One of my rascals, however, seeing the position of affairs, bolted with his prey, and when I came up with him dodged behind a bush. I heard his breech-block snick as he opened it. Springing through the bush with a revolver in hand, I was just in time to fell him with the buttend as he closed the breech and before he had time to draw on me.

As he was rather badly injured by the blow, I disarmed him and let him continue the rest of the journey without further punishment. The moral effect of this incident on the men was very marked, and there were never afterwards any open signs of insubordination when I was in the neighbourhood. The Lukuga, or, as the natives at its mouth call it, the Lumbridgi, was at