Dhanis, who had also been through the whole campaign and still considered that he had some work to do.

Our voyage to Stanley Falls was, excepting for one small scrimmage with the natives in Itimberie, uneventful. To my immense disgust I found, on arriving at the Falls, that, while we were in the Itimberie River, Dhanis had passed us on his way home. A despatch from him awaited me with orders to join him at once, he having heard on his way down that I had gone up again. This I was only too delighted to do, and we joined him at Stanley Pool — Jasen having made a record passage from Stanley Pool to the Falls and back, including a trip to Ibembo, in thirty days.

After a few days at Stanley Pool, spent in organising a caravan, the Commandant and I started for the coast, in company with