GONGO LUTETE FINALLY LEAVES THE ARABS AND ALLIES HIMSELF WITH THE STATE FORCES — ARRIVAL AT KABINDA, CAPITAL OF LUPUNGU, GREAT CHIEF OF THE BALUBAS MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY HEADED BY TIPPU TIB'S SON, SEFU — PREPARATIONS FOR AN ENCOUNTER

For a whole month we were regally entertained at N'Gandu. Almost every day Gongo sent us a present, and as he seemed to count everything by hundreds — a hundred sheep one day, a hundred goats another, a hundred baskets of corn, or a hundred bunches of bananas — we fared well.

Towards the end of the month Gongo Lutete announced that he would leave the Arabs and come over to us, providing we would keep faith with him, and, in the event of his being attacked by the Arabs, help him to defend himself. In proof of his own fidelity