way, unable to withstand the bad climate, bad feeding, and want of care to which they had been subjected.

These five Abyssinians were in a wretched condition and suffering from fever when they joined us, but it seemed to me that something might be made of them; and so it proved, for with proper care and feeding they became the most useful, hard-working, and faithful men in the whole detachment. On several occasions, when the detachment was on the verge of mutiny, these Abyssinians kept close to Mohun and myself, and, in fact, usually insisted on sleeping within a yard or two of our tents. On the 14th of March I distributed a hundred cartridges per head and a new suit of uniform to each man.

That night I was wakened by an alarm of fire on our side of Kasongo, and rushing out found that