CHAPTER X.

Parting with Colonel Linant—Magassa’s vanity and disloyalty—The sailors’ island—Jumba’s Cove—Uganda—Dumo—The Alexandra Nile— Lupassi Point—In danger at Mkongo—Alone with Nature—Insect life—Dreams of a happier future—A dark secret—Murabo and the fish—Alice Island—A night never to be forgotten—The treachery of Bumbireh—Saved!—Refuge Island—Wiru—“Go and die in the Nyanza!”—Back in camp—Sad news 166