 However, Comyn writes in his memoirs that he also saw ""the charred remains of the stockade"" of Sulaiman's fortifications.Even a decade later, one of Comyn's successors wrote that ""the burnt stumps of his stockade, and the mud walls of his houses"" were still visible.Soon after his arrival Comyn ordered the construction of a new fort ""to take the place of the one of green brick built by the French"", since the competition with the Congo Free State for control of Southern Sudan was not over yet.