An hour was spent in gathering a pile of brushwood and logs, and the man said that he and the two boys would gather plenty more, during the day.

They were, at four o'clock, to take the horses down to the river, a mile distant, and let them drink their fill.

They had brought with them a large bag of grain--which had been carried by the men--a quantity of plantains, and some fowls.

Therefore, the party that were to remain would be well provided.
Moreover, in collecting the wood a score of snakes had been killed.
Some of these and a chicken had been cooking while they were at work and, as soon as this was eaten, they started for the town.
When they came within a mile of it, Stanley entered a plantation of fruit trees, and Meinik and the four men went on.
They returned, in two hours, with the news that a party of ten men had arrived in the town, on the previous day, with two prisoners.
One, a coloured man, had been able to walk.

The other, a white man, had been carried in on a litter.