ine
up to the town. They would not consent to go on to the Chungu, as the
old cropped-eared man would have been obliged to come back the
distance again, he having been on the way to the Kalungosi as a
sentinel of the ford. Casembe is reasonable and fair, but his people
are neither, and will do anything to mulct either strangers or their
own countrymen.

_30th April, 1868._--The cold of winter has begun, and dew is
deposited in great quantities, but all the streams are very high in
flood, though the rains have ceased here some time.

_1st May, 1868._--At the Mandapala River. I sent a request to Mohamad
Bogharib to intercede with Casembe for me for a man to show the way to
Chikumbi, who is near to Bangweolo. I fear that I have become mixed up
in the Lunda mind with Mpamari (Mohamad bin Saleh), from having gone
off with him and returning ere we reached Ujiji, whither ostensibly we
were bound. I may be suspected of being in his confidence, and of
forwarding his plans by coming back. A deaf and dumb man appears among
the people here, making signs exactly as I have seen such do in
England, and occasionally emitting a low unmodulated guttural drawl
like them.

_3rd May, 1868._--Abraham, my messenger, came back, while we were at
afternoon prayers, with good news for us, but what made Cropped-ears
quite chopfallen was that Casembe was quite gracious! He did not wish
me to go away, and now I am welcome back; and as soon as we hear of
peace at Chikumbi's we shall have a man to conduct us thither. The
Mazitu were reported to have made an inroad into Chikumbi's country;
and it was said that chief had fled, and Casembe had sent messengers
to hear the truth. Thanks to the Most High for His kindness and
influence.

_4th May, 1868._--We leave the Mandapala. Cropped-ears, whose name I
never heard, collapsed at once on hearing the message of Casembe:
before that I never heard such a babbler, to every one passing, man or
woman, he repeated the same insinuations about the English, and
"Mpamari," and the Banyamwezi,--conspiracy--guilt--return a second
time,--till, like a meddling lawyer, he thought that he had really got
an important case in hand!

The River Chungu we found to be from fifteen to eighteen yards broad
and breast deep, with at least one hundred yards of flood, before we
reached the main stream, the Mandapala. The Chungu and the Lundi join
in the country called Kimbafuma, about twelve miles from our
crossing-place of Man