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fore destroyed and levelled with the ground, when it came once 

 more into the hands of Government. A new fort was speedily 

 erected. It is close to the old fort, but nearer to the lake. 

 It has been said that the bodies of the murdered Europeans 

 were thrown by the mutineers to the hyaenas. A search, 

 however, resulted in the discovery of the remains of one, the 

 skull being recognised by the stopping in some of the teeth. 

 These remains were reverently buried. A wooden cross and 

 a simple railing mark the spot. I was told, that the skull showed 

 a bullet mark through the forehead ; this would refute the 

 story of a lin- 

 gering death 

 having been 

 inflicted. 



During 

 these troubles 

 Chief Luba 

 had prudently 

 shifted his 

 quarters to a 

 distance, but 

 he had the 

 good sense 

 not to throw 

 in his lot with 

 the mutineers. 

 Luba's, a quiet 

 haven of rest, 



and Luba's turned into a pandemonium with the slaughtered 

 lying about unburied and by the score, was indeed a fearful 

 contrast. Suleiman Effendi — I remember him well, for he was 

 sent to me in 1894 to be captain of the Soudanese troops at 

 Kampala when I was in command there — was one of the first 

 mutineers who fell. That he was brave is proved by his being 

 shot close to the British lines. He was buried, but the hyaenas 

 dug him out again. Once more he was buried, and again ex- 

 humed by the hyaenas which, scenting the dead, had suddenly 

 appeared on the scene by the dozen, though previously not at 

 all very common in the neighbourhood. 



On my last journey through Luba's 1 saw two pigmies of the 

 Great African Forest, a man and a woman. In size they seemed 



PIGMIES OF THE GREAT AFRICAN FOREST. 



