18C6.] A CAMEL BEATEN TO DEATH. 4B 



25th May. — Matumora is not Ndonde. A chief to the 

 south-west of this owns that name and belongs to the 

 Matumbwe tribe. 



26th May. — I sent Musa westwards to buy food, and he 

 returned on the evening of 27th without success ; he found 

 an Arab slave-dealer waiting in the path, who had bought 

 up all the provisions. About 11 p.m. we saw two men pass 

 our door with two women in a chain ; one man carried fire 

 in front, the one behind, a musket. Matumora admits that 

 his people sell each other. 



27th May. — The havildar and Abraham came up. Havildar- 

 says that all I said in my note was true, and when it was 

 read to the sepoys they bewailed their folly, he adds that 

 if they were all sent away disgraced, no one would be to^ 

 blame but themselves. He brought them to Hassane's, but 

 they were useless, though they begged to be kept on: I 

 may give them another trial, but at present they are a sad 

 incumbrance. South-west of this the Manganja begin ; but 

 if one went by them, there is a space beyond in the south- 

 west without people. 



The country due west of this is described by all to be so 

 mountainous and beset by Mazitu, that there is no possibility 

 of passing that way, I must therefore make my way to the 

 middle of the Lake, cross over, and then take up my line 

 of 1863. 



2nd June, 1866. — The men sent to the Matambwe south- 

 east of this returned with a good supply of grain. The 

 sepoys won't come; they say they cannot, — a mere excuse,, 

 because they tried to prevail on the Nassick boys to go- 

 slowly like them, and wear my patience out. They killed 

 one camel with the butt ends of their muskets, beating- 

 it till it died. I thought of going down disarming them 

 all, and taking five or six of the willing ones, but it is 

 more trouble than profit, so I propose to start westwards 

 on Monday the 4th, or Tuesday the 5th. My sepoys offered 



