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deep with elephants plunging. Bain almost daily, but less 

 in amount now. Bombay says his greatest desire is to 

 visit Speke's grave ere he dies : he has a square head with 

 the top depressed in the centre. 



29th January. — "We ascended a ridge, the edge of a flat 

 basin with ledges of dark brown sandstone, the brim of 

 ponds in which were deposited great masses of brown haema- 

 tite, disintegrated into gravel, flat open forest with short 

 grass. We crossed a rill of light-coloured water three times 

 and reached a village. After this in 1J hour we came tx> 

 Merera's. 



30th January. — At Merera's, the second of the name.. 

 Much rain and very heavy ; food abundant. Baniayamwezi 

 and Yukonongo people here. 



31st January. — Through scraggy bush, then open forest: 

 with short grass, over a broad rill and on good path to- 

 village Mwaro ; chief Kamirambo. 



1st February, 1872. — We met a caravan of Syde bin, 

 Habib's people yesterday who reported that Mirambo has 

 offered to repay all the goods he has robbed the Arabs of, all 

 the ivory, powder, blood, &c, but his offer was rejected.. 

 The country all around is devastated, and Arab force is at 

 Simba's. Mr. Stanley's man Shaw is dead. There is very 

 great mortality by small-pox amongst the Arabs and at the- 

 coast. We went over flat upland forest, open and bushy, 

 then down a deep descent and along N.E. to a large tree at 

 a deserted stockade. 



2nd February. — Away over ridges of cultivation and 

 elephant's footsteps. Cultivators all swept away by Basavira. 

 Very many elephants feed here. We lost our trail and sent 

 men to seek it, then came to the camp in the forest. 

 Lunched at rill running into Ngombe Nullah. 



Ukamba is the name of the Tsetse fly here. 



3rd February. — Mr. Stanley has severe fever, with great 

 pains in the back and loins : an emetic helped him a. 



