It is scarcely possible to tell how many of the slaves have perished since they were bought or captured, but the loss has been grievous.
Lewale off to Mfutu to loiter and not to fight.

The Bagoye don't wish Arabs to come near the scene of action, because, say they, "When one Arab is killed all the rest ran away, and they frighten us thereby.

Stay at M'futu; we will do all the fighting." This is very acceptable advice.
_16th May, 1872._--A man came from Ujiji to say one of the party at Kasongo's reports that a marauding party went thence to the island of Bazula north of them.

They ferried them to an island, and in coming back they were assaulted by the islanders in turn.

They speared two in canoes shoving off, and the rest, panic-struck, took to the water, and thirty-five were slain.