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cipal men were only sufficient to purchase a scanty meal, 
and I had hastened on to this village in order to slaughter 
a tired ox and give them all a feast as well as a rest on 
Sunday, as preparation for tho journey before us. I ex- 
plained this to them, and thought their grumbling was al- 
layed. I soon sank into a stato of stupor, which tho fever 
sometimes produced, and was oblivious to all their noise in 
slaughtering. On Sunday the mutineers were making a 
terrible din in preparing a skin they had procured. I re- 
quested them twice, by the man who attended me, to bo 
more quiet, as the noise pained me; but, as they paid no 
attention to this civil request, I put out my head, and, re- 
peating it myself, was answered by an impudent laugh. 
Knowing that discipline would be at an end if this mutiny 
were not quelled, ai d that our lives depended on vigor- 
ously upholding authority, I seized a double-barrelled 
pistol and darted forth from tho domicile, looking, I sup- 
pose, so savage as to put them to a precipitate flight. As 
some remained within hearing, I told them that I must 
maintain discipline, though at tho oxpenso of some of their 
limbs ; so long as we travelled together they must re- 
member that I was master, and not they. There being 
but little room to doubt my determination, they imme- 
diately became very obedient, and never afterward gave 
me any troublo or imagined that they had any right to 
my property. 
13th . — We went forward some miles, but were brought 
to a stand by the severity of my fever on tho banks of a 
branch of the Loajima, another tributary of the Kasai. I 
was in a state of partial coma until late at night, when it 
became nocessary for mo to go out ; and I was surprised to 
find that my men had built a little stockade, and some of 
them took their spears and acted as a guard. I found that 
we were surrounded by enemies, and a party of Chiboque 
lay near tho gateway, after having preferred tho demand 
of “a man, an ox, a gun, or a tusk/' My men had prepared 
for defence it. case of a night-attack, and, when the Chi- 
