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and repeat the crossed clasp : they want to tell their 

 children that they have seen me. 



15th December. — To-day I announced to Casembe our 

 intention of going away. Two traders got the same return 

 present from him that I did, namely, one goat and some 

 fish, meal and cassava. I am always ill when not working ; 

 I spend my time writing letters, to be ready when we come 

 to Ujiji. (l$th December.) We have been here a month, 

 and I cannot get more than two limars : I got altitudes of 

 the meridian of stars north and south soon after we came, 

 but not limars. Casembe sent a big basket of fire-dried 

 fish, two pots of beer, and a basket of cassava, and says we 

 may go when we choose. 



lyth December.— On going to say good-bye to Casembe, 

 he tried to be gracious, said that we had eaten but little 

 of his food ; yet he allowed us to go. He sent for a man to 

 escort us ; and on the 22)id December Ave went to Lunde 

 Eiver, crossed it, and went on to sleep at the Chungu, close 

 by the place where Casembe's court stood when Dr. Lacerda 

 came, for the town was moved further west as soon as the 

 Doctor died. There are many palm-oil palms about, but no 

 tradition exists of their introduction. 



23rd December. — -We crossed the Chungu. Eain from 

 above, and cold and wet to the waist below, as I do not 

 lift my shirt, because the white skin makes all stare. I 

 saw black monkeys at this spot. The Chungu is joined 

 by the Kaleusi and the Mandapala before it enters 3Ioero. 

 Casembe said that the Lunde ran into Mofwe ; others denied 

 this, and said that it formed a marsh with numbers of pools 

 in long grass ; but it may ooze into Mofwe thus. Casembe 

 sent three men to guide me to Moero. 



24:th December. — Drizzly rain, and we are in a miserable 

 spot by the Kabusi, in a bed of brakens four feet high. 

 The guides won't stir in this weather. I gave beads to buy 

 what could be got for Christmas. 



