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bombardment Mlozi had caused a good many of the hostages whom he had 
detained from the natives to be slaughtered. I therefore summoned a council 
of the Wankonde chiefs, and under my superintendence they tried Mlozi on 
this count. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. When called upon 
for his defence he merely said, “ What is the good ? These people are resolved 
that I shall die. My hour is come.” 
He was sentenced to be hanged, but it was originally intended that this 
sentence should be carried out at Karonga. After the trial, however, a number 
of Mlozi’s men who were prisoners succeeded in overpowering the guard and 
escaping, and the rumour went about that Kapanda-nsaru’s forces were at hand 
coming to the relief of Mlozi. As a strong flank attack on the part of the 
Arabs might have cut off our line of retreat to Karonga, it was resolved that 
Mlozi’s execution should take place immediately, so that we might be released 
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from the responsibility of guarding him. He was accordingly hanged on the 
afternoon of the 4th December, in the presence of the Wankonde chiefs. 
On the fourth day of the campaign we were back again at Karonga ; but 
here we found to our great disgust that the S.S. Domira , contrary to my orders, 
had been sent away by the agent of the African Lakes Company. The 
departure of the officers and men was therefore delayed for some weeks. 
Meantime I left for the south with Major Edwards to attend to other matters 
that were pressing. 
My three days at Mlozi’s without sufficient shelter in the midst of pouring 
rain, without proper food and having to place my mattress on the wet ground 
and to drink the foul water of the early rains, had begun to make, me very ill, and 
a few days after leaving Karonga I was down with an attack of black-water 
fever, in which I was most tenderly and carefully nursed by Major Edwards 
who conveyed me on the German steamer to Fort Johnston and thence to 
Liwonde, where I was joined by Dr. Poole, who eventually landed me safe and 
sound and recovered at Zomba. Meanwhile Lieut. Coape-Smith and Mr. Gordon 
