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oil from ground-nuts. I am anxious to be off, but chiefly 

 to get news. 



I find that many Unyamwesi people are waiting here, on 

 account of the great quantity of rainwater in front : it would 

 be difficult, they say, to get canoes on Tanganyika, as the 

 waves are now large. 



24dh January. — Two of Mohamad Bogharib's people came 

 from Casembe's to trade here, and a body of Syde bin 

 Habib's people also from Garaganza, near Kaze, they 

 report the flooded lands on this side of Lake Tangan- 

 yika as waist and chest deep. Bin Habib, being at Ka- 

 tanga, will not stir till the rains are over, and I fear we 

 are storm-stayed till then too. The feeders of the Marungu 

 are not fordable just now, and no canoes are to be had. 



26th and 27th January. — I am ill with fever, as I always 

 am when stationary. 



28th January. — Better, and thankful to Him of the 

 Greatest Name. We must remain ; it is a dry spot, and 

 favourable for ground-nuts. Hooping-cough here. 



30th January. — The earth cooled by the rain last night 

 sets all to transplanting dura or sorghum ; they cut the 

 leaves till only about eighteen inches of them are left, but 

 it grows all the better for the change of place. 



Mohamad believes that Tanganyika flows through Busizi 

 to Lohinde. (Chuambo.) 



Seyd Seyd is said to have been the first Arab Sultan who 

 traded, and Seyed Majid follows the example of his father, 

 and has many Arab traders in his employment. He lately 

 sent eight buffaloes to Mteza, king of Uganda, son of Sunna, 

 by way of increasing his trade, but it is not likely that he 

 will give up the lucrative trade in ivory and slaves. 



Susi bought a hoe with a little gunpowder, then a cylinder 

 of dura, three feet long by two feet in diameter, for the hoe : 

 it is at least one hundredweight. 



Stone underground houses are reported in Kua, but whether 



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