forces, who were still in front. On the 11th, therefore, Michaux and his company were sent as a guard to Lutete's people, who were ordered to build a bridge over the Lufubu. This they accomplished in about three hours, at a point where the river was only forty yards wide and about ten feet deep.

When the bridge was finished Michaux crossed over, and after a couple of hours' march found himself on the banks of the Kipango, not a mile from Sefu's camp, which was pitched on a height about threequarters of a mile from the river. The enemy, on discovering our troops so near them, came down in force to prevent our people crossing the river Kipango, which they naturally supposed was our intention. There seems to have been a sharp skirmish across the river. Wordy war, which also raged, had more effect than even our rifles.