n my
country that he comes seeking it?" Yet he sent a tusk and said "That
is all I have, and he is not to come here." Their hostile actions are
caused principally by fear. "If Nsama could not stand before the
Malongwana or traders, how can we face them?" I wished to go on to
Moero, but all declare that our ten guns would put all the villages to
flight: they are terror-struck. First rains of this season on the 5th.

_10th October, 1867._--I had a long conversation with Syde, who thinks
that the sun rises and sets because the Koran says so, and he sees it.
He asserts that Jesus foretold the coming of Mohamad; and that it was
not Jesus who suffered on the cross but a substitute, it being
unlikely that a true prophet would be put to death so ignominiously.
He does not understand how we can be glad that our Saviour died for
our sins.

_12th October, 1867._--An elephant killed by Tipo Tipo's men. It is
always clouded over, and often not a breath of air stirring.

_16th October, 1867._--A great many of the women of this district and
of Lopere have the swelled thyroid gland called _goitre_ or Derbyshire
neck; men, too, appeared with it, and they in addition have hydrocele
of large size.

An Arab who had been long ill at Chitimba's died yesterday, and was
buried in the evening. No women were allowed to come near. A long
silent prayer was uttered over the corpse when it was laid beside the
grave, and then a cloth was held over as men in it deposited the
remains beneath sticks placed slanting on the side of the bottom of
the grave; this keeps the earth from coming directly into contact with
the body.

A feast was made by the friends of the departed, and portions sent to
all who had attended the funeral: I got a good share.

_18th October, 1867._--The last we hear of Nsama is that he will not
interfere with Chikongo. Two wives beat drums and he dances to them;
he is evidently in his dotage. We hear of many Arabs to the west of
us.

_20th October, 1867._--Very ill; I am always so when I have no
work--sore bones--much headache; then lost power over the muscles of
the back, as at Liemba; no appetite and much thirst. The fever
uninfluenced by medicine.

_21st October, 1867._--Syde sent his men to build a new hut in a
better situation. I hope it may be a healthful one for me.

_22nd October, 1867._--The final message from Chikongo was a
discouraging one--no ivory. The Arabs, however, go west with me as far
as Chisawe's, who