FORT DINAH. 645 



a strip of jungle, they closed in and began shooting at the travellers with 

 their long arrows. 



Just before sunset they arrived close to Mkatete, the village which they 

 had been led to expect would prove to them a haven of rest, but they were 

 destined to be disappointed. "When the guides asked as to whether the 

 party would be received as friends or not, the only answer which the vil- 

 lagers condescended to give was a volley of arrows. Cameron sung out for 

 his men to follow him, and three or four responding to the call, they made a 

 dash through a strip of jungle and across a stream into the village. As soon 

 as the natives saw the strangers taking the offensive they fled ; and the re- 

 mainder of the caravan coming up, they burnt down all the village, except 

 four huts, which were utilised as the corners of a species of fortification. By 

 dint of working all night, the morning saw them fairly protected. In this 

 place, which Cameron named Fort Dinah, in memory of his pet goat, they 

 remained five days, when the natives, finding themselves thoroughly worsted, 

 volunteered to make peace. On leaving Fort Dinah the travellers found the 

 people apparently very friendly — all the little children running after them 

 and saluting them ; but, at the same time, a large number of temporary huts 

 in the villages through which they passed showed that men had come from 

 far and wide to join in the attack on them. The chief of the village now 

 offered to pay them an indemnity. This was refused, but presents were 

 exchanged to show that no ill-will was borne on either side. 



Leaving the valley of the Lomami, and crossing many streams flowing 

 directly into the Lualaba itself, they pursued their way with varying for- 

 tunes. At a place called Mangwa Sanza, Cameron heard that the village of 

 Kasongo (the head chief of Urua) was only two or three days distant, and 

 that two caravans were settled there. He was anxious to find a guide and 

 go there direct, but Mona Kasanga said that the man who had professed to 

 indicate the direction in which the place lay had pointed in the wrong quar- 

 ter, and that, if they took that road, they would get into trouble, and he 

 persisted that their course lay to the east-south-east. Following this road for 

 three days, they came to a village called Mukalombo, and there our traveller 

 found out the reason why Mona Kasanga and the other guides had been de- 

 ceiving him. Mona Kasanga had heard that, having neglected to pay his 

 tribute, his father, together with some of his sons, had been killed, and his 

 village destroyed by Kasongo. Dreading the same fate, Mona Kasanga was 

 afraid to trust himself in Kasongo's clutches. Mukalombo was also the home 

 of the second guide, and on this account he had joined with Mona Kasanga 

 in trying to lead the white man astray. Mona Kasanga now refused to go 

 any further, and they had to trust to the second man, Kongwe, to show the 

 road. 



Four days' marching west by south brought them to Munza, a large dis- 



