The first thing in the morning I wished to have at them; but they took the hint of daybreak to make off, and left me only the half of the animal.

I saw only one sable antelope.
We all went back to Kaze, arriving there on the 24th.
25th to 13th .-- Days rolled on, and nothing was done in particular--beyond increasing my stock of knowledge of distant places and people, enlarging my zoological collection, and taking long series of astronomical observations--until the 13th, when the whole of Kaze was depressed by a sad scene of mourning and tears.

Some slaves came in that night--having made their way through the woods from Ugogo, avoiding the track to save themselves from detection--and gave information that Snay, Jafu, and five other Arabs, had been killed, as well as a great number of slaves.

The expedition, they said, had been defeated, and the positions were so complicated nobody knew what to do.

At first the Arabs achieved two brilliant successes, having succeeded in killing Hori Hori of Khoko, when they recovered their ivory, made slaves of all they could find, and took a vast number of cattle; then attacking Usekhe they reduced that place to submission by forcing a ransom out of its people.
At this period, however, they heard that a whole caravan, carrying 5000 dollars' worth of property, had been cut up by the people of Mzanza, a small district ten miles north of Usekhe; so, instead of going on to Kanyenye to relieve the caravans which were waiting there for them, they foolishly divided their forces into three parts.