seen the new moon.
They are very particular in selecting lucky days, and anything
unpleasant that may have happened in one month is supposed to be
avoided by choosing a different day for beginning an enterprise in the
next. Mohamad left Uvira on the third day of a new moon, and several
fires happened in his camp; he now considers a third day inauspicious.

Casembe's dura or sorghum is ripe to-day: he has eaten mapemba or
dura, and all may thereafter do the same: this is just about the time
when it ripens and is reaped at Kolobeng, thus the difference in the
seasons is not great.

_24th May, 1868._--Detained four days yet. Casembe's chief men refuse
to escort Mohamad Bogharib; they know him to be in debt, and fear that
he may be angry, but no dunning was intended. Casembe was making every
effort to get ivory to liquidate it, and at last got a couple of
tusks, which he joyfully gave to Mohamad: he has risen much in the
estimation of us all.

_26th May, 1868._--Casembe's people killed five buffaloes by chasing
them into the mud and water of Mofwe, so he is seeing to the division
of the meat, and will take leave to-morrow.

_28th May, 1868._--We went to Casembe; he was as gracious as usual. A
case of crim. con. was brought forward against an Arab's slave, and an
attempt was made to arrange the matter privately by offering three
cloths, beads, and another slave, but the complainant refused
everything. Casembe dismissed the case by saying to the complainant,
"You send your women to entrap the strangers in order to get a fine,
but you will get nothing:" this was highly applauded by the Arabs, and
the owner of the slave heaped dust on his head, as many had done
before for favours received. Casembe, still anxious to get ivory for
Mohamad, proposed another delay of four days to send for it; but all
are tired, and it is evident that it is not want of will that prevents
ivory being produced.

His men returned without any, and he frankly confessed inability: he
is evidently very poor.

_30th May, 1868._--We went to the Kanengwa rivulet at the south end
of Mofwe, which forms a little lagoon there fifty yards broad and
thigh deep; but this is not the important feeder of the Lagoon, which
is from two to three miles broad, and nearly four long: that has many
large flat sedgy islands in it, and its water is supplied by the
Mbereze from south-east.

_31st May, 1868._--Old Kapika sold his young and good-looking wife for
unfaithf