(knowing that I was there), had no intention of crossing.

On the evening of the 9th November we got a hurried note from de Heusch, saying that by the time it reached us he would probably be cut off from us. A prisoner he had taken, gratuitously informed him that Sefu would make an attack on the morning of the 11th. We struck camp when the moon gave light enough, and, without finding any signs of the enemy, arrived at Goimuyasso's. Simultaneously with our arrival, a number of prisoners, caught by Goi's people in the act of stealing canoes, were brought in. They said that Sefu had sent them across the river to get him canoes, and this seemed to have been the whole source of the alarm.

One of these prisoners, a “ witch-doctor,” calmly told us that he changed himself