1872.] PARTING WORDS. 175 



21 st March. — Kead Baker's book. It is artistic and 

 •clever. He does good service in exploring the Nile slave- 

 trade ; I hope he may be successful in suppressing it. 



The Batusi are the cattle herds of all this Unyanyembe 

 region. They are very polite in address. The women have 

 small compact, well-shaped heads and pretty faces ; colour, 

 brown ; very pleasant to speak to ; well-shaped figures, with 

 small hands and feet ; the last with high insteps, and springy 

 altogether. Plants and grass are collected every day, and a 

 fire with much smoke made to fumigate the cattle and keep 

 off flies: the cattle like it, and the valleys are filled 

 with smoke in the evening in consequence. The Baganda 

 are slaves in comparison ; black, with a tinge of copper- 

 colour sometimes ; bridgeless noses, large nostrils and lips, 

 but well-made limbs and feet. 



[We see that the thread by which he still draws back a 

 lingering word or two from Stanley has not parted yet.] 



25th March. — Susi brought a letter back from Mr. 

 Stanley. He had a little fever, but I hope he will go on 

 safely. 



26th March. — Bain of Masika chiefly by night. The 

 Masika of 1871 began on 23rd of March, and ended 30th 

 of April. 



27th March. — Beading. Very heavy rains. 



28th March. — Moenyembegu asked for the loan of a 

 "" doti." He is starving, and so is the war-party at M'Futu ; 

 ■chaining their slaves together to keep them from running 

 away to get food anywhere. 



2§th, 30th, 31st March. — Very rainy weather. Am reading 

 ' Mungo Park's Travels ;' they look so truthful. 



1st April, 1872. — Bead Young's ' Search after Livingstone;' 

 thankful for many kind words about me. He writes like a 

 gentleman. 



2nd April. — Making a sounding-line out of lint left by 



