There was still a chance that I could get there in time to be operated on; but since it depended on my keeping alive, in the weak condition I had been in for three weeks, the chance was a small one. I, however, agreed with him that it was better to take it, together with the risks of the road. Commandant Lothaire despatched Captain Rom to convoy me, and, notwithstanding all the trials and worries of looking after a sick man, I can only say that he treated me as if I had been a brother instead of a stranger and a foreigner. On the 29th of April, two days after the death of poor de Wouters, I left Kasongo, comfortably installed in the big canoe I have already mentioned.

I arrived at Nyangwe on the 1st of May. Here Lieutenant Lemerie, who was in command, insisted on our remaining for two