20 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. I. 



of the Lake, about 300 yards off, to begin our journey on 

 the 21st. Lunars on 20th. Delay to prepare food for 

 journey. Lunars again 22nd. 



A strong wind from the East to-day. A current sweeps 

 round this islet Kisenge from N.E. to S.E., and carries trees 

 and duckweed at more than a mile an hour in spite of the 

 breeze blowing across it to the West. The wind blowing 

 along the Lake either way raises up water, and in a calm it 

 returns off the shore. Sometimes it causes the current to. 

 go southwards. Tanganyika narrows at Uvira or Yira, and 

 goes out of sight among the mountains there ; then it appears 

 as a waterfall into the Lake of Quando seen by Banyamwezi. 



23rd July. — I gave a cloth to be kept for Kasanga, the 

 chief of Kasenge, who has gone to right with the people of 

 Goma. 



1st August, 1869. — Mohamad killed a kid as a sort of 

 sacrifice, and they pray to Hadrajee before eating it. The 

 cookery is of their very best, and I always get a share ; I 

 tell them that I like the cookery, but not the prayers, and 

 it is taken in good part. 



2nd August. — We embarked from the islet and got over 

 to the mainland, and slept in a hooked-thorn copse, with a 

 species of black pepper plant, which Ave found near the top 

 of Mount Zomba, in the Manganja country,* in our vicinity ;, 

 it shows humidity of climate. 



3rd August. — Marched 3^ hours south, along Tanganyika,, 

 in a very undulating country ; very fatiguing in my Aveak- 

 ness. Passed many screAv-palms, and slept at Lobamba 

 village. 



4:th August. — A relative of Kasanga engaged to act as our 

 guide, so we remained waiting for him, and employed a 

 BanyamAvezi smith to make copper balls Avitk some bars of 

 that metal presented by Syde bin Habib. A lamb was. 



* In 1859. 



