eople.
"Mpamari killed my son, kill his son--himself." It is difficult to get
at the truth, for Mohamad or Mpamari never tells the whole truth. He
went to fight Nsama with Muonga, and was wounded in the foot and
routed, and is now glad to get out of Lunda back to Ujiji. _(16th
May.)_ Complete twenty sets of lunars.

_11th May, 1868._--Mohamad Bogharib told Casembe that he could buy
nothing, and therefore was going away, Casembe replied that he had no
ivory and he might go: this was sensible; he sent far and near to find
some, but failed, and now confesses a truth which most chiefs hide
from unwillingness to appear poor before foreigners.

_18th and 19th May, 1868._--It is hot here though winter; but cold by
night. Casembe has sent for fish for us. News came that one of Syde
bin Habib's men had come to Chikumbi on his way to Zanzibar.

_20th May, 1868._--A thunder-shower from the east laid the dust and
cooled the ground: the last shower of this season, as a similar slight
shower was the finish up of the last on the 12th of May. _(21st May._)
This cannot be called a rainy month: April is the last month of the
wet season, and November the first.

_22nd May, 1868._--Casembe is so slow with his fish, meal, and guides,
and his people so afraid to hurry him, that I think of going off as
soon as Mohamad Bogharib moves; he is going to Chikumbi's to buy
copper, and thence he will proceed to Uvira to exchange that for
ivory; but this is at present kept as a secret from his slaves. The
way seems thus to be opening for me to go to the large Lake west of
Uvira.

I told Casembe that we were going; he said to me that if in coming
back I had found no travelling party, I must not risk going by Nsama's
road with so few people, but must go to his brother Moenempanda, and
he would send men to guide me to him, and thence he would send me
safely by his path along Lake Moero: this was all very good.

_23rd May, 1868._--The Arabs made a sort of sacrifice of a goat which
was cooked all at once; they sent a good dish of it to me. They read
the Koran very industriously, and prayed for success or luck in
leaving, and seem sincerely religious, according to the light that is
in them. The use of incense and sacrifices brings back the old Jewish
times to mind.

A number of people went off to the Kanengwa, a rivulet an hour south
of this, to build huts; there they are to take leave of Casembe, for
the main body goes off to-morrow, after we have