r shields, they felt
defenseless among the greedy Chiboque, and some allowance must be made
for them on that account.

SATURDAY, 11TH. Reached a small village on the banks of a narrow stream.
I was too ill to go out of my little covering except to quell a mutiny
which began to show itself among some of the Batoka and Ambonda of our
party. They grumbled, as they often do against their chiefs, when they
think them partial in their gifts, because they supposed that I had
shown a preference in the distribution of the beads; but the beads I
had given to my principal 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 the journey before us. I explained this to them, and
thought their grumbling was allayed. I soon sank into a state of stupor,
which the 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 requested them twice, by the man
who attended me, to be more quiet, as the noise pained me; but as
they paid no attention to this civil request, I put out my head, and,
repeating it myself, was answered by an impudent laugh. Knowing that
discipline would be at an end if this mutiny were not quelled, and
that our lives depended on vigorously upholding authority, I seized a
double-barreled pistol, and darted forth from the domicile, looking,
I suppose, 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 the expense of some of their limbs; so long as we traveled
together they must remember that I was master, and not they. There being
but little room to doubt my determination, they immediately became very
obedient, and never afterward gave me any trouble, 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 the 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 necessary for me 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 the gateway, after havin