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is full of large islands, and has but little water between 

 them ; that little is encumbered with aquatic vegetation 

 called " Tikatika," on which, as in lakelet Gumadona, a man 

 can Avalk. Waterlilies and duckweed are not the chief 

 part of this floating mass. In the north Okara is large. 

 Burukinegge land is the boundary between the people of 

 Kavirondo and the Gallahs with camels and horses. 



9^ November. — Copied several Notes written at Kizinga 

 and elsewhere, and at Kabwabwata resume Journal. Some 

 slight showers have cooled the air a little : this is the 

 hottest time of the year. 



10th November. — A heavier shower this morning will have 

 more of the same effect. 



11th November. — Muabo visited this village, but refuses 

 to show his underground houses. 



13th November. — I was on the point of starting without 

 Mohamad Bogharib, but he begged me not to go till he had 

 settled some weighty matter about a wife he is to get 

 at Ujiji from Mpamari ; we must have the new moon, 

 which will appear in three days, for lucky starting, and 

 will leave Syde bin Habib at Chisabi's. Meanwhile two 

 women slaves ran away, and Syde has got only five back 

 of his twenty-one fugitives. Mullani was mild with his 

 decisions, and returned here ; he informed me that many 

 of Syde's slaves, about forty, fled. Of those who cannot 

 escape many die, evidently broken-hearted ; they are 

 captives, and not, as slaves often are, criminals sold for 

 their guilt, hence the great mortality caused by being- 

 taken to the sea to be, as they believe, fatted and eaten. 

 Poor things ! Heaven help them ! 



Ujiji is the pronunciation of the Banyamwezi ; and they 

 call the people Wayeiye, exactly as the same people styled 

 themselves on the Biver Zougha, near Ngami. 



[It will be remembered that several of his men refused to 



