Mazitu with their
guns, while all the country people fled. The Banyamwezi are decidedly
uglier than the Balonda and Baitawa: they eat no fish, though they
come from the east side of Tanganyika, where fish are abundant and
cheap; but though uglier, they have more of the sense of honour with
traders than the aborigines.

_29th June, 1868._--Observed the "smokes" to-day, the first of the
season:[65] they obscured the whole country.

_1st July, 1868._--I went over to Chikumbi, the paramount chief of
this district, and gave him a cloth, begging a man to guide me to
Bangweolo. He said that I was welcome to his country; all were so: I
had better wait two days till he had selected a _good_ man as a guide,
and he would send some food for me to eat in the journey--he would not
say ten days, but only two, and his man would take me to the smaller
part of the Lake, and leave others to forward me to the greater or
Bangweolo. The smaller part is named Bemba, but that name is
confusing, because Bemba is the name of the country in which a portion
of the Lake lies. When asking for Lake Bemba, Kasongo's son said to
me, "Bemba is not a lake, but a country:" it is therefore better to
use the name BANGWEOLO, which is applied to the great mass of the
water, though I fear that our English folks will bogle at it, or call
it Bungyhollow! Some Arabs say Bambeolo as easier of pronunciation,
but Bangweolo is the correct word. Chikumbi's stockade is 1-1/2 hour
S.E. of our camp at Kizinga.

_2nd July, 1868._--Writing to the Consul at Zanzibar to send supplies
of cloth to Ujiji--120 pieces, 40 Kiniki; 80 merikano 34 inches broad,
or samsam. Fine red beads--Talaka, 12 frasilas. I ask for soap,
coffee, sugar, candles, sardines, French preserved meats, a cheese in
tin, Nautical Almanac for 1869 and 1870, shoes (two or four pairs),
ruled paper, pencils, sealing-wax, ink, powder, flannel-serge, 12
frasila beads, 6 of Talaka; added 3 F. pale red, 3 W. white.

_3rd July, 1868._--The summary of the sources which I have resolved to
report as flowing into the central line of drainage formed by the
Chambeze, Luapula, and Lualaba are thirteen in all, and each is larger
than the Isis at Oxford, or Avon at Hamilton. Five flow into the
eastern line of drainage going through Tanganyika, and five more into
the western line of drainage or Lufira, twenty-three or more in all.
The Lualaba and the Lufira unite in the Lake of the chief Kinkonza.

_5th July, 1868._--I