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through. I saw the natives detaching- them with a smart 

 slap of the palm, and found it quite effectual. 



Swifts, Senegal swallows, and common dark - bellied 

 swallows appeared at Kizinga in the beginning of October : 

 other birds, as drongo shrikes, a bird with a reddish bill, 

 but otherwise like a grey linnet, keep in flocks yet. (5th 

 December.) They pair now. The kite came sooner than the 

 swallows ; I saw the first at BangAveolo on the 20th July, 

 1868. 



1st November, 1868. — At Kabwabwata; we are waiting 

 till Syde comes up that we may help him. He has an 

 enormous number of tusks and bars of copper, sufficient 

 it seems for all his people to take forward, going and 

 returning three times over. He has large canoes on the 

 Lake, and will help us in return. 



2nd November. — News came yesterday from Mpweto's that 

 tAventy-one slaves had run away from Syde bin Habib at 

 one time : they were Eua people, and out of the chains, as 

 they were considered safe when fairly over the Lualaba, but 

 they showed their love of liberty on the first opportunity. 

 Mpweto is suspected to have harboured them, or helped 

 them over the river; this will probably lead to Syde 

 attacking him, as he has done to so many chiefs in Eua. 

 In this case Mpweto will have no sympathy ; he is so 

 wanting in the spirit of friendliness to others. 



3rd November.— Sent off men to hasten Syde onwards. 

 We start in two or three days. 



The oldest map known to be in existence is the map 

 of the Ethiopian Goldmines, dating from the time of 

 Sethos I., the father of Eameses II., long enough before- 

 the time of the bronze tablet of Aristagoras, on which 

 was inscribed the circuit of the whole earth, and all the 

 sea and all rivers. (Tylor, p. 90, quoted from Birch's 

 Arcli&ologia, "vol. xxxiv. p. 382.) Sesostris was the first to^ 

 distribute his maps. 



