trial, but the captain told me that two of the crew had fallen ill on the upward voyage, and had been given a day or two's rest. On the next ration day these two were missing, and, upon making inquiries, the captain was informed that they had died in the night and had been buried on shore. This, however, did not satisfy him, and having his own suspicions he searched the ship, and discovered parts of the men smoke-dried, and hidden away in the lockers of the six Bangala, whom he was then handing over to the authorities.

Leopoldville, as the chief port of the Upper Congo, has large numbers of these Bangala constantly coming and going, and has, as a consequence, to keep a guard on the cemetery, several cases of body snatching having been proved against them. This practice became at one time so inveterate that capital