truth of this story, I have heard it from different men at different times, and it is curious that they always break the legs and wings, or arms, as the case might be, of birds and monkeys before killing them.

During this voyage on the Stanley we stopped every evening, and, putting all the crew and soldiers on shore, formed a camp. Half of the men were employed in cutting up timber and carrying it on board before five o'clock the following morning, when we resumed our voyage. A steam launch, with a lieutenant and his men on board, accompanied us. This was deemed advisable, since a trading station, established only a short time previously on the Kasai River, had just before this been burned, and its occupants murdered by the district natives. On the 7th of May we moored opposite the charred remains of the trading station, but were not attacked during the night.