 Tim Jeal, in his biography of Stanley, has shown by a study of Stanley's diary and his colleague Frank Pocock's diary that on almost every occasion when there was conflict with Africans on the Congo in 1875-76, Stanley exaggerated the scale of the conflict and the deaths on both sides.On 14 February 1877, according to his colleague, Frank Pocock's diary, Stanley's nine canoes, and his sectional boat the 'Lady Alice', were attacked and followed by eight canoes, crewed by Africans with firearms.In Stanley's book, 'Through the Dark Continent', Stanley inflated this incident into a major battle, by increasing the number of hostile canoes to 60 and adjusting the casualties accordingly.