With him I spent a most delightful though painful evening, for he, determined that I should have one more good laugh before I died, gave such a ridiculous description of his doings, and of the state of the district, that he kept me laughing the whole evening. It proved the best thing that could have been done, for the constant shaking, it appears, so effectively emptied the abscess that I got rapidly better from that day forward. It was at Kirundu that retribution overtook most of the murderers of Emin Pasha and his men. Mohara of Nyangwe had, after the murder of Hodister and his company, given orders that all the white men in his dominions were to be slaughtered.

Said-ben-a-Bedi, an intelligent well educated young Arab chief (who had accompanied Emin Pasha from the Equatorial province, through the great forest, to