posts; this gave an opening, through which he and Albert, quickly followed by their men, managed to effect an entry. Here we took three chiefs prisoners, one of whom, Sadi by name, had served with Stanley. Both his arms were broken and his thigh and scalp were ripped open by bullets, yet he lingered on in this state for three weeks.

The Commandant now decided to follow the Arabs into their country. He was at liberty to do this, since they, by crossing the Lomami and attacking us, with Sefu, an officer of the State, at their head, had broken the Treaty of Zanzibar. Scherlink and I were in charge of the advance guard. We crossed the Lomami River on the 26th of November and camped in a plain about half a mile from the river bank. After two days of inactivity, while waiting for the main body to cross the river, we, to satisfy