food, and working the greater part of the day up to his waist, or even neck, in the swamps. I can only attribute the absence of fever in the caravan to the effect of light, since there were no forests in the immediate neighbourhood, and all the swamps were open to the sun's direct rays. At Lusuna we found that Michaux had brought Gongo Lutete, with between 5000 and 10,000 auxiliaries with him; and as we were accompanied by Lupungu, Kolomoni, and Goimuyasso, our camp at this time numbered about 25,000 natives, 400 regulars, and 6 white officers.

The old Lusuna — or Rusuna as Cameron calls him — had died a few months before our arrival, and his successor was a mild man of very different stamp. The fact that both sides were cannibals, or rather that both sides had cannibals in their train, proved a great element