We were detained for days together collecting contributions of fat and butter, according to the orders of Sekeletu, as presents to the Balonda chiefs.

Much fever prevailed, and ophthalmia was rife, as is generally the case before the rains begin.

Some of my own men required my assistance, as well as the people of Libonta.

A lion had done a good deal of mischief here, and when the people went to attack it two men were badly wounded; one of them had his thigh-bone quite broken, showing the prodigious power of this animal's jaws.

The inflammation produced by the teeth-wounds proved fatal to one of them.
Here we demanded the remainder of the captives, and got our number increased to nineteen.