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Thanii bin Suaelim is the Arab to whom my goods are 

 directed at TJjiji. 



2±th May. — At Chitiniba's we are waiting to see what 

 events turn up to throw light on our western route. Some 

 of the Arabs and Kasonso's men went off to-day: they 

 will bring information perhaps as to Nsama's haunts, and 

 then we shall move south and thence west. Wrote tp Sir 

 Thomas Maclear, giving the position of Liemba and to Dr. 

 Seward, in case other letters miscarry. The hot season is 

 beginning now. This corresponds to July further south. 



Three goats were killed by a leopard close to the village 

 in open day. 



28^ May. — Information came that Nsama begged pardon 

 of the Arabs, and would pay all that they had lost. He 

 did not know of his people stealing from them : we 

 shall hear in a day or two whether the matter is to be 

 patched up or not. While some believe his statements, 

 others say, " Nsama's words of peace are simply to gain 

 time to make another stockade:" in the mean time Ka- 

 sonso's people will ravage all his country on this eastern 

 side. 



Hamees is very anxious that I should remain a few days 

 longer, till Kasonso's son, Kampamba, comes with certain 

 information, and then he will see to our passing safely to 

 Chiwere's village from Kasonso's. All have confidence in 

 this last-named chief as an upright man. 



1st June, 1867. — Another party of marauders went off this 

 morning to plunder Nsama's country to the west of the con- 

 fluence of the Lofu as a punishment for a breach of public 

 law. The men employed are not very willing to go, but 

 when they taste the pleasure of plunder they will relish it 

 more ! 



The watershed begins to have a northern slope about 

 Moamba's, lat. 10° 10' S., but the streams are very tortuous, 

 and the people have very confused ideas as to where they 



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