borrowed some paper from Mohamad Bogharib to
write home by some Arabs going to the coast. I will announce my
discovery to Lord Clarendon; but I reserve the parts of the Lualaba
and Tanganyika for future confirmation. I have no doubts on the
subject, for I receive the reports of natives of intelligence at first
hand, and they have no motive for deceiving me. The best maps are
formed from the same sort of reports at third or fourth hand. Cold
N.E. winds prevail at present.

_6th July, 1868._--Divided our salt that each may buy provisions for
himself: it is here of more value than beads. Chikumbi sent fine
flour, a load for two stout men carried in a large basket slung to a
pole, and a fine fat sheep, carried too because it was too fat to walk
the distance from his stockade.

_7th, 8th, and 9th July, 1868._--After delaying several days to send
our guide, Chikumbi said that he feared the country people would say
that the Ingleza brought the Mazitu to them, and so blame will be
given to him. I set this down as "words of pombe," beery babble; but
after returning from Bangweolo, I saw that he must have been preparing
to attack a stockade of Banyamwezi in our path, and had he given us a
guide, that man would have been in danger in coming back: he therefore
preferred the safety of his man to keeping his promise to me. I got a
Banyamwezi guide, and left on the _10th July, 1868_, going over gently
rising sandstone hills, covered with forest and seeing many deserted
villages, the effects of the Mazitu foray: we saw also the Mazitu
sleeping-places and paths. They neglect the common paths of the
country as going from one village to another, and take straight
courses in the direction they wish to go, treading down the grass so
as to make a well-marked route, The Banyamwezi expelled them, cutting
off so many of them with their guns and arrows that the marauders
retired. The effect of this success on the minds of the Imboshwa, or
Imbozhwas, as Chikumbi's people are called, was not gratitude, but
envy at the new power sprung up among them of those who came
originally as traders in copper.

Kombokombo's stockade, the village to which we went this day, was the
first object of assault, and when we returned, he told us that
Chikumbi had assaulted him on three sides, but was repulsed. The
Banyamwezi were, moreover, much too sharp as traders for the
Imboshwa, cheating them unmercifully, and lying like Greeks.
Kombokombo's stockade was on