giving vent to extravagant expressions of delight at seeing us. It was hard to imagine what prompted them, but it spoke well for the Delcommune expedition, which passed about a year before. During a talk with the chiefs, who had given us, amongst other things, presents of pigs and goats and forty baskets of flour, we learnt that Makipula was a personal friend of Kolomoni's, and, though a good agriculturist, no warrior.

They had, it appeared, decided to live in the same town and make common cause, as Kolomoni was good only for fighting. This arrangement seemed to have worked well, for the whole country was cultivated, and the large town itself one of the best built I had seen. On the 22nd October a letter arrived from Sub-Lieutenant Debruyne, a Belgian officer, who, with Commandant Lippens, was resident at Sefu's court at