allowed every man to take at least one woman and a boy, who acted as transport, and who looked after the commissary's arrangements. On the 13th of September we arrived at N'Gandu, and received a splendid reception by Gongo Lutete: thousands of his people turned out to welcome us, firing guns, and dancing and yelling as if they were possessed. Gongo Lutete was born in Mallela, and was by blood a Bakussu. He had himself been a slave, having as a child fallen into the hands of the Arabs. While still a youth, as a reward for his distinguished conduct and pluck on raiding expeditions, he was given his freedom.

Starting with one gun, at eighteen years of age, he gradually collected a band of brigands round him, whom he ruled with a rod of iron, and before long became Tippu Tib's chief slave and ivory-hunter. He established