They brought fifty tusks to Ujiji.
We dare not pronounce positively on any event in life, but this looks like prompt retribution on the perpetrators of the horrible and senseless massacre of Nyangwe.

It was not vengeance by the relations of the murdered ones we saw shot and sunk in the Lualaba, for there is no communication between the people of Nyangwe and the Bakuss or people of Nombe of Lomame--that massacre turned my heart completely against Dugumbe's people.

To go with them to Lomame as my slaves were willing to do, was so repugnant I preferred to return that weary 400 or 600 miles to Ujiji.

I mourned over my being baffled and thwarted all the way, but tried to believe that it was all for the best--this news shows that had I gone with these people to Lomame, I could not have escaped the Bakuss spears, for I could not have run like the routed fugitives.

I was prevented from going in order to save me from death.