advanced fort, which, after about two minutes' sharp work, we stormed. The Arabs, not having had time to organise after their defeat in the open, seemed unable to rally, and their other holds quickly fell. As they commenced to re-form on the plain between the forts and the Lualaba, we again advanced against them, and they retreated to the river bank. At about an hour and a half's march from the forts, the Lufubu River empties itself into the Lualaba, and is here about one hundred yards wide and very deep.

The enemy gathered in solid masses in the angle formed by the junction of the two rivers. On our approach something started a panic in the re-formed lines of the enemy; and as Sefu and Miserera were crossing the Lufubu (filling all the canoes with their own staff), the rank and file tried to swim across by