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Tanganyika is declared to send its water through north into 

 Lake Chowambe or Baker's Lake ; if this does not prove 

 false, then Tanganyika is an expansion of the Nile, and so 

 is Lake Chowambe ; the two Lakes being connected by the 

 Eiver Loanda. Unfortunately the people on the east side of 

 the Loanda are constantly at war with the people on the 

 west of it, or those of Kusisi. The Arabs have been talking 

 of opening up a path through to Chowambe, where much 

 ivory is reported ; I hope that the Most High may give me 

 a way there. 



11th April. — I had a long oration from Mohamad yester- 

 day against going off for Bemba to-morrow. His great 

 argument is the extortionate way of Casembe, who would 

 demand cloth, and say that in pretending to go to Ujiji 

 I had told him lies: he adds to this argument that this 

 is the last month of the rains ; the Masika has begun, 

 and our way north will soon be open. The fact of the 

 matter is that Mohamad, by not telling me of the super- 

 abundance of water in the country of the Marungu, which 

 occurs every year, caused me to lose five months. He knew 

 that we should be detained here, but he was so eager to get 

 out of his state of durance Avith Casembe that he hastened 

 my departure by asserting that we should be at Ujiji in one 

 month. I regret this deception, but it is not to be wondered 

 at, and in a Mohamadan and in a Christian too it is thought 

 clever. Were my goods not nearly done I would go, and 

 risk the displeasure of Casembe for the chance of dis- 

 covering the Lake Bemba. I thought once of buying from 

 Mohamad Bogharib, but am afraid that his stock may be 

 getting low too : I fear that I must give up this Lake for 

 the present. 



12th April. — I think of starting to-morrow for Bangweolo r 

 even if Casembe refuses a passage beyond him : we shall be 

 better there than we are here, for everything at Eabwabwata 

 is scarce and dear. There we can get a fowl for one string- 



