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jaceiit villagers were called in to settle this serious affair, 

 I look up to that higher Power to influence their minds as 

 He has often done before. I persuaded them to refer the 

 matter to Casembe himself by sending a man with one of 

 mine up to the town. They would not consent to go on to 

 the Chungu, as the old cropped-eared man would have been 

 obliged to come back the distance again, he having been on 

 the way to the Kalungosi as a sentinel of the ford. Casembe 

 is reasonable and fair, but his people are neither, and 

 will do anything to mulct either strangers or their own 

 countrymen. 



30th April. — The cold of winter has begun, and dew is. 

 deposited in great quantities, but all the streams are very 

 high in flood, though the rains have ceased here some 

 time. 



1st May, 1868. — At the Mandapala River. I sent a request 

 to Mohamad Bogharib to intercede with Casembe for me for 

 a man to show the way to Chikumbi, who is near to Bang- 

 weolo. I fear that I have become mixed up in the Lunda 

 mind with Mpamari (Mohamad bin Saleh), from having 

 gone off with him and returning ere we reached Ujiji, 

 whither ostensibly we were bound. I may be suspected of 

 being in his confidence, and of forwarding his plans by 

 coming back. A deaf and dumb man appears among the 

 people here, making signs exactly as I have seen such do 

 in England, and occasionally emitting a low unmodulated 

 guttural drawl like them. 



3rd May. — Abraham, my messenger, came back, while- 

 we were at afternoon prayers, with good news for us, but. 

 what made Cropped-ears quite chopfallen was that Casembe 

 was quite gracious ! He did not wish me to go away, and 

 now I am welcome back ; and as soon as we hear of peace 

 at Chikumbi's we shall have a man to conduct us thither.. 

 The Mazitu were reported to have made an inroad into 

 Chikumbi's country; and it was said that chief had fled, 



