most friendly persons — was, at a given signal, slaughtered where he stood. This, so far as I can remember, is the story told to me by two or three members of Emin's harem whom we rescued. At the tribunal, Said-ben-a-Bedi was acquitted of any participation in Emin's murder, he having apparently done all in his power to save him.

Eleven of those actually concerned in the massacre, together with Miserera and his son, were hanged the same morning at Kirundu for the murder of Noblesse and Michels. Kibungi himself escaped into the great forest, and it was not until nearly nine months later that he was caught by Captain Lothaire, and tried by court-martial and shot. We reached Stanley Falls on the 15th of May, and the same day Captain Cock arrived from Stanley Pool in the Ville de Bruges. With him I went down to Basoko,