rapacious." "Good," said I, "but why separate ?" "If we traveled toward the Congo from this place in a bunch," said Monty, "we should give the game away completely and have all the rag-tag and bob-tail on our heels.

As it is, our only chance of shaking all of them would be to go round by sea and enter the Congo from the other side; but that would destroy our chance of picking up the trail in German East Africa.

So I'll go to Brussels, and get back to British East as fast as possible.

Fred must go to British East and watch Schillingschen.

You two fellows may as well go by way of British East Africa to Muanza on Victoria Nyanza, and on from there to the Congo border by way of Ujiji.