Some months afterwards, when we opened the poor fellow's grave at Kasongo, we found that he had been cut into pieces about a foot long, though happily, as we discovered from his murderers and from independent witnesses, this was post-mortem mutilation. On the 20th November the Commandant arrived, having with him one 7 '5 Krupp gun, and accompanied by Captain de Wouters, Cerkel, Lupungu, Kolomoni, and a great following. On the way, hearing that the Arabs had appeared lower down the river opposite N'Gandu, Dhanis had sent Captain Michaux with eighty men to reinforce Lieutenant Duchesne, who was with Congo Lutete at N'Gandu.

This detachment became eventually a second of attack.