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21th November. — Mr. Stanley is better. We started at sun- 

 set westwards, then northwards for seven hours, and at 4 a.m. 

 reached Lohinga, at the mouth of the Lusize. 



2Sth November. — Shot an Ibis religiosa. In the afternoon 

 Luhinga, the superior of Mukambe, came and showed himself 

 very intelligent. He named eighteen rivers, four of which 

 enter Tanganyika, and the rest Lusize : all come into, none 

 leave Tanganyika.* Lusize is said to rise in Kwangeregere 

 in the Kivo lagoon, between Mutumbe and Luanda. Nya- 

 bungu is chief of Mutumbe. Luhinga is the most intel- 

 ligent and the frankest chief we have seen here. 



29th November. — We go to see the Lusize River in a canoe. 

 The mouth is filled with large reedy sedgy islets : there are 

 three branches, about twelve to fifteen yards broad, and one 

 fathom deep, with a strong current of 2' per hour : water 

 discoloured. The outlet of the Lake is probably by the 

 Loiigumba River into Lualaba as the Luamo, but this as 

 yet must be set down as a " theoretical discovery." 



30th November. — A large present of eggs, flour, and a sheep 

 came from Mukamba. Mr. Stanley went round to a bay in 

 the west, to which the mountains come sheer down. 



1st December, 1871, Friday. — Latitude last night 

 3° 18' 3" S. I gave fifteen cloths to Lohinga, which 

 pleased him highly. Kuansibura is the chief who lives 

 near Kivo, the lagoon from which the Lusize rises : they 

 say it flows under a rock. 



2nd December. — 111 from bilious attack. 



3rd December. — Better and thankful. Men went off to 

 bring Mukamba, whose wife brought us a handsome present 

 of milk, beer, and cassava. She is a good-looking young- 

 woman, of light colour and full lips, with two children of 

 eight or ten years of age. We gave them cloths, and she 



* Thus the question of the Lusize was settled at once : the previous 

 notion of its outflow to the north proved a myth. — Ed. 



