After waiting three hours to rest the horses, they again mounted and, riding all night, arrived in the morning at Yuadit--a village twenty-six miles from Tharawa--and found the force on the point of starting.
"No bad news, I hope, Mr.Brooke ?" the general said, as he rode up to him.
"I am sorry to say, sir, that my news is not good.

Here is the brigadier's despatch." "This is unfortunate, indeed," the general said, when he had run his eye over the document.
"Mr.Tollemache, please to ride along the line, and say that the column is not to get into motion until further orders." Colonel Adair and the other officers of the staff had been on the point of mounting, when Stanley rode up.

The general called two or three of the senior officers to him.
"Cotton can neither take Donabew, nor get past it," he said.

"Here is his despatch.

You see, he has lost several officers and a good many men; and that in the assault on an outlying work, only.