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LETTEKS FEOM HOME. 



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corroborative evidence — to which I shall make further allusion 

 — of the river joining the Lualaba from people who asserted 

 they had traveled great distances along its banks. 



Leaving the inlet, we made for Ras Mulango, and camped 

 there, touching the following day at Kasenge, on the main-land. 

 We tlien went on to a deep inlet in the eastern side of Kivira 

 Island, to prepare for crossing the lake, which we did the next 

 day, and arrived at Machachezi, where we found a large party 

 bound for Manyuema, under charge of Muinyi Hassani, a Mri- 

 ma, and a slave of Syde ibn Habib's. Another day took us be- 

 yond Jumah Merikani's settlement, and the next, May 9th, to 



May, 

 1874. 



HAY IN KIVIEA. ISLAND. 



On arrival, I was gladdened by the receipt of letters from 

 home nearly a year old ; and the packet having been opened by 

 Murphy at Mpanga Sanga on January 12th, he inclosed a mes- 

 sage that he was getting on well. 



These letters had a curious escape. The caravan by which 

 they were forwarded from Unyanyembe by Said ibn Salim was 

 dispersed by a party of robbers, who afterward attacked another 

 and stronger caravan, and were beaten off with the loss of some 

 of their numbers. On the body of one of the killed this packet 

 of letters was found, and brought on to me at Ujiji. 



All hands managed to get drunk on their return, and a com- 

 plaint reached me that they entered a woman's house, and ap- 

 propriated her pombe. Bilal the younger made himself par- 



