he gave a large present of ivory, and obtained leave from the Commandant to remain in the territory in which he was established, and which, according to a treaty arranged by Mr. Stanley for the Congo Free State, at Zanzibar, was outside the Arabs' sphere of influence. Gongo told us that the Arabs had massacred M. Hodister's whole expedition, and the “ white Pasha from the East,” whom we guessed to be Emin.

He also told us that they had murdered the Stairs and Delcommune expeditions in the south; but this, though we did not then know it, was of course incorrect. We left two officers with a guard at N'Gandu, and resumed our march towards Katanga, following the ridge of the watershed between the Lomami and the Lubefu. During this march we came across hundreds of human skeletons — according to our Batetela