He therefore ordered the sentries on the river to take, or fire on, any canoes descending the river with children on board, and, after catching a few, succeeded in stopping the traffic. Some of the people belonging to Pania Mutumba (the chief of the tribe in question up the river) accompanied the Commandant in an attack on Gongo Lutete, One of these men was on “sentry go” for a night, and, having shot a man, came in to report what he had done, and despatched someone else to bring in the body. When it was brought in, he found, to his astonishment, that he had shot his own father.

He immediately went to Dhanis and complained that the spy he had shot was his father, and that it was very hard lines, since he was unable to eat him. The Commandant ordered him to bury the