168 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. VI. 



11th February. — Eain nearly all night. Scarcely a clay 

 has passed without rain and thunder since we left Tangan- 

 yika. Across a flat forest again, meeting a caravan for Ujiji. 

 The grass is three feet high, and in seed. Reach Chikuru, 

 a stockaded village, with dura plantations around it and 

 pools of rain-water. 



12th February. — -Rest. 



13th February. — Leave Chikuru, and wade across an open 

 flat with much standing-water. They plant rice on the 

 wet land round the villages. Our path lies through an 

 open forest, where many trees are killed for the sake of the 

 bark, which is used as cloth, and for roofing and beds. Mr. 

 Stanley has severe fever. 



14:th February. — Across the same flat open forest, with 

 scraggy trees and grass three feet long in tufts. Came to a 

 Boma. N. E. Gunda. 



15th February. — Over the same kind of country, where 

 the water was stagnant, to camp in the forest. 



lQth February.- — Camp near Kigando, in a rolling country 

 with granite knolls. 



11th February. — Over a country, chiefly level, with stag- 

 nant water ; rounded hills were seen. Cross a rain torrent 

 and encamp in a new Boma, Magonda. 



18th February. — Go through low tree-covered . hills of 

 granite, with blocks of rock sticking out : much land 

 cultivated, and many villages. The country now opens out 

 and we come to the Tembe,* in the midst of many 

 straggling villages. Unyanyembe. Thanks to the Al- 

 mighty. 



* Tembe, a flat-roofed Arab house. 



