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(l&h and 11th Sepdember.) Best, as we could get food 

 to buy. (18th September.) To a stockaded village, where 

 the people ordered us to leave. We complied, and went 

 out half a mile and built our sheds in the forest : I like 

 sheds in the forest much better than huts in the villages, 

 for we have no mice or vermin, and incur no obligation. 



lWi September. — Found that Barua are destroying all the 

 Manyuema villages not stockaded. 



20th September. — We came to Kunda's on the Eiver Ka- 

 temba, through great plantations of cassava, and then to a 

 woman chief's, and now regularly built our own huts apart 

 from the villages, near the hot fountain called Kabila which 

 is about blood-heat, and flows across the path. Crossing this 

 we came to Mokwaniwa's, on the Eiver Gombeze, and met a 

 caravan, under Nassur Masudi, of 200 guns. He presented 

 a fine sheep, and reported that Seyed Majid was dead — he 

 had been ailing and fell from some part of his new house at 

 Darsalam, and in three days afterwards expired. He was a 

 true and warm friend to me and did all he could to aid me 

 with his subjects, giving me two Sultan's letters for the 

 purpose. Seyed Burghash succeeds him; this change causes 

 anxiety. Will Seyed Burghash's goodness endure now that 

 he has the Sultanate ? Small-pox raged lately at Ujiji. 



22nd September. — Caravan goes northwards, and we rest, 

 and eat the sheep kindly presented. 



23rd September. — We now passed through the country 

 of mixed Barua and Baguha, crossed the River Longumba 

 twice and then came near the great mountain mass on west 

 of Tanganyika. From Mokwaniwa's to Tanganyika is about 

 ten good marches through open forest. The Guha people 

 are not very friendly ; they know strangers too well to show 

 kindness: like Manyuema, they are also keen traders. I 

 was sorely knocked up by this march from Nyangwe back 

 to Ujiji. In the latter part of it, I felt as if dying on my 

 feet. Almost every step was in pain, the appetite failed,. 



