prisoners, as well as their dead and dying, in Mohun's hands. To each of the prisoners he gave a present, and dismissed them in the morning after trying to explain to them that we had not come there to fight. When we got back to the Lualaba we found that the waters had risen many feet, and, as a consequence, were able to shoot down many of the rapids, which would otherwise have necessitated disembarking to negotiate.

The journey was not a pleasant one to me, for besides being ill and being unable to eat goat's flesh, which was the staple food, I was several times more than half drowned by the canoe filling with water in shooting the rapids. Of the rest of the journey I have little recollection. We reached Kasongo on the 25th of April, to find that Baron Dhanis had gone down the river to Stanley Falls on his way home; and