surrounded by a strong palisade, the whole forming a very efficient camp for our people. The situation possessed the additional advantage of being separated from the natives and the town, and thus lessened the chance of collision between the two parties. The country round this town is exceedingly rich. Our people brought in prodigious quantities of bananas, different kinds of corn, pineapples, potatoes, sugarcane, and other food.

On the 3rd of December we commenced marching in a N.N.E. direction. Though our way lay through swamps, there were fortunately no forests. We arrived at Kabamba's on the 5th, and were met by the chief, who assured us that he had no quarrel with us, and that he had already refused to join the Arabs against us, though he had no intention of joining us against the Arabs. He boasted that he had never