Sent men to see if the way was clear.
_8th August, 1871._--They would come to no parley.

They knew their advantage, and the wrongs they had suffered from Bin Juma and Mohamad's men when they threw down the ivory in the forest.

In passing along the narrow path with a wall of dense vegetation touching each hand, we came to a point where an ambush had been placed, and trees cut down to obstruct us while they speared us; but for some reason it was abandoned.
Nothing could be detected; but by stooping down to the earth and peering up towards the sun, a dark shade could sometimes be seen: this was an infuriated savage, and a slight rustle in the dense vegetation meant a spear.

A large spear from my right lunged past and almost grazed my back, and stuck firmly into the soil.

The two men from whom it came appeared in an opening in the forest only ten yards off and bolted, one looking back over his shoulder as he ran.