little fat that no one had before succeeded in getting a sufficient quantity from which it was possible to extract enough, cream, before it became solid, to get any result at all. From Nyangwe to Riba Riba 1 suffered a great deal, but on arriving there the abscess in my liver burst successfully, and so saved my life.

Lieutenant Rue was established at Riba Riba, and had built three or four houses on the site of the old town, which was burnt by the natives after the Arabs had left, and just before the arrival of Captain Chaltin many months before. It was here that Miserera and the other Beloochies, established as Arab chiefs, had flogged Noblesse and Michels to death, afterwards cutting them up and dividing them among their slaves for food. These were the only two officers of Hodister's ill-fated expedition who were