We offered to pay them handsomely if they would perform their promise of guiding us to Cassange, but they knew no more of the paths than we did; and my men had paid them repeatedly, and tried to get rid of them, but could not.

They now joined with our enemies, and so did the traders.

Two guns and some beads belonging to the latter were standing in our encampment, and the guides seized them and ran off.

As my men knew that we should be called upon to replace them, they gave chase, and when the guides saw that they would be caught, they threw down the guns, directed their flight to the village, and rushed into a hut.

The doorway is not much higher than that of a dog's kennel.