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began to use the water, in their ordinary way of cooking, 

 washing, and drinking : possibly some ingredient of the hot 

 fountain that flows into it affects the cure, for the people on 

 the Lofubu, in Nsarna's country, had the swelling. The 

 water in bays is decidedly brackish, while the body of Tan- 

 ganyika is quite fresh. 



The odour of putrid elephant's meat in a house kills 

 parrots : the Manyuema keep it till quite rotten, but know 

 its fatal effects on their favourite birds. 



11th January. — Safari or caravan reported to be near, and 

 my men and goods at Ujiji. 



28th January. — A safari, under Hassani and Ebed, 

 arrived with news of great mortality by cholera (Toivny), at 

 Zanzibar, and my " brother," whom I conjecture to be Dr. 

 Kirk, has fallen. The men I wrote for have come to Ujiji, 

 but did not know my whereabouts ; when told by Katomba's 

 men they will come here, and bring my much longed for 

 letters and goods. 70,000 victims in Zanzibar alone from 

 cholera, and it spread inland to the Masoi and Ugogo ! 

 Cattle shivered, and fell dead : the fishes in the sea died in 

 great numbers ; here the fowls were first seized and died, 

 but not from cholera, only from its companion. Thirty men 

 perished in our small camp, made still smaller by all the 

 .able men being off trading at the Metamba, and how many 

 Manyuema died we do not know; the survivors became 

 afraid of eating the dead. 



Formerly the Cholera kept along the seashore, now it 

 goes far inland, and will spread all over Africa ; this we get 

 from Mecca filth, for nothing was done to prevent the place 

 being made a perfect cesspool of animals' guts and ordure of 

 men.* A piece of skin bound round the chest of a man, and 



* The epidemic here mentioned reached Zanzibar Island from the 

 interior of Africa by way of the Masai caravan route and Pangani. 

 Dr. Kirk says it again entered Africa from Zanzibar, and followed the 

 course of the caravans to Ujiji and Manyuema. — Ed. 



