tornado some difficulty in shifting my habitation. Several times in the night, with little or no warning, the tents of one or other of my companions, who were too lazy to superintend things themselves, were whirled away from over them, and occasionally even deposited in the surrounding trees. After travelling for some time with them, I eventually grew tired of the slow and haphazard manner in which my companions proceeded on the road; I therefore left them, and, forging ahead, arrived at Leopoldville, on Stanley Pool, on the 7th of February 1892.

At Stanley Pool, which was extremely short of provisions, an order had been issued to the effect that every officer must in turn go hippo-hunting to supply the troops with meat. This seemed a delightful break in the monotony of station life, and I immediately volunteered to hunt