, being accustomed to Arabs from Tanganyika, will
give me men to take me on to Moero: the Arabs will then return, and we
shall move on.

_23rd October, 1867._--Tipo Tipo gave Karungu some cloth, and this
chief is "looking for something" to give him in return; this detains
us one day more.

When a slave wishes to change his master he goes to one whom he likes
better and breaks a spear or a bow in his presence--the transference
is irrevocable. This curious custom prevails on the Zambesi, and also
among the Wanyamwesi; if the old master wishes to recover his slave
the new one may refuse to part with him except when he gets his full
price: a case of this kind happened here yesterday.

_25th October, 1867._--Authority was found in the Koran for staying
one day more here. This was very trying; but the fact was our guide
from Hara hither had enticed a young slave girl to run away, and he
had given her in charge to one of his countrymen, who turned round and
tried to secure her for himself, and gave information about the other
enticing her away. Nothing can be more tedious than the Arab way of
travelling.

_26th October, 1867._--We went S.W. for five hours through an
undulating, well-wooded, well-peopled country, and quantities of large
game. Several trees give out when burned very fine scents; others do
it when cut. Euphorbia is abundant. We slept by a torrent which had
been filled with muddy water by late rains. It thunders every
afternoon, and rains somewhere as regularly as it thunders, but these
are but partial rains; they do not cool the earth; nor fill the cracks
made in the dry season.

_27th October, 1867._--Off early in a fine drizzling rain, which
continued for two hours, and came on to a plain about three miles
broad, full of large game. These plains are swamps at times, and they
are flanked by ridges of denudation some 200 or 300 feet above them,
and covered with trees.

The ridges are generally hardened sandstone, marked with madrepores,
and masses of brown haematite. It is very hot, and we become very
tired. There is no system in the Arab marches. The first day was five
hours, this 3-1/2 hours; had it been reversed--short marches during
the first days and longer afterwards--the muscles would have become
inured to the exertion. A long line of heights on our south points to
the valley of Nsama.

_28th October, 1867._--Five hours brought us to the Choma River and
the villages of Chifupa, but, as already me