Kinene entered and said: "Pasha, as you are going away in the morning, let your people go to the plantations and provide themselves with manioc and bananas. I will give them to you for the many fine things you have brought to me." Emin looked up from his book and thanked him and then sent for his people. Kinene said: "Let your people leave their guns here on the veranda, for the women who work on the plantations would be terrified if they saw men coming with guns." The men, fifty in number, did as he suggested and betook themselves to the plantations a mile away.
When they were gone, Kinene spoke in a friendly way to Emin and regretted his speedy departure. Ismaili and Mamba, a slave, stood behind Emin's chair and at a sign from the chief seized him by the arms. Emin turned angrily and asked them what they meant. Then said Kinene: "Pasha, you must die."
"What do you mean?" said Emin. "Is this a sorry joke? How dare you restrain me? What do you mean by saying I must die? Who are you, Kinene, that you should dare to kill me?"
Kinene answered: "It is the will of Kibonge. I must obey him."
Three persons stepped forward and held Emin securely as he tried to free himself. When he saw that his efforts were useless, he said: "This is a mistake. Here is a letter from Kibonge which promises me safe conduct."
Kinene replied: "Pasha, if you can read Arabic, read this letter."
And Emin read the second letter of the false Kibonge, which ordered him to be killed. He gave a deep sigh, then frowned and said: "Well, you will kill me, but do not think that I am the only white man in this country. Many will come to avenge my death and believe me, in two years there will not be a single Arab left in this region to tell the story of the destruction of his people."
Kinene remained unmoved and when Emin saw there was no hope of escape he protested no longer and Ismaili, his treacherous guide, severed the head of the defenseless one from his body.
Two years elapsed before definite news of Emin's fate was received, and as nothing was heard of him all that time, it was generally believed that he had been killed by Arabs, and that the truth had been concealed. At last Baron Dhanis, at the head of a Belgian expedition, came to the vicinity of Kinene's possessions. There by chance Emin's trunk and diary were found in a cabin, and the discovery led to the arrest of Ismaili and three others, who had participated in the murder, and their confession. The murderers were condemned to be hanged. A year later the treacherous Kibonge was made to pay for his infamy, for he was taken prisoner by a European expedition and put to death.