After the Victory.

Towards ten o'clock my advance-guard arrested seventeen women laden with smoked antelope's flesli. It was a real blessing, altliough insufficient to completely satisfy the hunger of my people. I myself divided the meat among the soldiers. The women were some of Suleiman's slaves, who had remained behind to smoke the meat, and had then lost their way. The information I gained from them was very valuable, and did me good service.

Suleiman was gone to a Jelabba village called Demeraia, and a day and a half from where I now was. He was followed by almost four hundred men, who joined him in the flight from Dem Suleiman towards the north. I marched in the track of E,abi, one of the chiefs, of the rear-guard, who had with him three hundred soldiers.

Besides these, Suleiman's march was followed by a thousand slaves led by a certain Abu Suep, the principal slave trader in Bahr-el-Ghazal. Suleiman thought a great deal of this man, and always applied to him for counsel and aid on important occasions.

At midday the head of my column arrived in sight of a large seriba, which I afterwards learned, was called Fangala. According to our guides, this seriba, before the present war, had been inhabited exclusively by the Jelabba, who carried on no other commerce than the slave trade.

Having marched about a hundred paces further, my advance-guard was met by a fusilade from within the village. I immediately ordered an advance at the run. Our adversaries were some of Suleiman's Besingers, who naturally received us as enemies. Only one of my men was wounded, his finger being broken by a ball.

The Besingers, who did not run away, were made prisoners. While we were advancing between the tukuls of the village, a white woman, trembling with fear and pressing a beautiful baby to her bosom, came to meet me. She began to speak, but fright