these expeditions was the number of partially cut-up bodies I found in every direction for miles around.

Some of them were minus the hands and feet, and some with steaks cut from the thighs or elsewhere; others had the entrails or the head removed, according to the taste of the individual savage, though, as I afterwards discovered, this taste is more tribal than individual. Neither old nor young, women or children, are exempt from the possibility of serving as food for their conquerors or neighbours. Many rumours reached us that Mohara of Nyangwe was advancing against us. We had several false alarms of night attacks, and were very glad when, on the 29th of December, these rumours became so definite that Gongo Lutete offered to bet the Commandant that if we marched on the morrow we should meet the Arabs.