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son, he is the same Tenge-Tenge whose people 

 interrupted the expedition of Mr. Scott ElHot several 

 years previously ; and it is an interesting and note- 

 worthy fact that, before that date, a German camp 

 was for a long time established in his dominions. 

 A few weeks after our departure from Beni, Lieu- 

 tenant B and another officer set out on a 



punitive expedition against these people, and we 

 were glad to hear that Kengele made a graceful 

 and (it is to be hoped) lasting submission to the 

 State without the shedding of any blood. 



After stopping at Beni for a few days, which 

 were variously occupied with a funeral, some 

 surgery, and a very pleasant meeting with Major 

 and Mrs. Powell-Cotton, who had just emerged 

 from the Congo Forest after six months' okapi- 

 hunting, we set our faces northwards on our rather 

 roundabout way back to Uganda. There was 

 formerly a fairly good road through the forest 

 north from Fort Beni to the Ituri River, but now, 

 owing to the attitude of the ' rdvolUs ' natives, it 

 has gone out of use, and owing to the action of 

 elephants and buffaloes, which swarm in this part 

 of the forest, it has gone sadly out of repair. The 

 beasts were there in such numbers that in some 

 places the air was full of the strong and bitter 

 odour, which one associates with the elephants' 

 house at the Zoo. The path was pounded and 

 churned into a sort of red cream by the feet of 

 the monsters, and every tree-stump was polished 



