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Mr. Stanley. Whydah birds are now building their nests. 

 The cock-bird brings fine grass seed-stalks off the top of 

 my Tembe. He takes the end inside the nest and pulls it 

 all in, save the ear. The hen keeps inside, constantly 

 arranging the grass with all her might, sometimes making- 

 the whole nest move by her efforts. Feathers are laid in 

 after the grass. 



4th April. — We hear that Dugumbe's men have come 

 to Ujiji with fifty tusks. He went down Lualaba with three 

 canoes a long way and bought much ivory. They were not 

 molested by Monangungo as we were. 



My men whom I had sent to look for a book left by 

 accident in a hut some days' journey off came back stopped 

 by a flood in their track. Copying observations for Sir T. 

 Maclear. 



8th April. — An Arab called Seyed bin Mohamad Magibbe 

 called. He proposes to go west to the country west of Ka- 

 tanga (Urange). 



[It is very interesting to find that the results of the visit 

 paid by Speke and Grant to Mteza, King of Uganda, have 

 already become well marked. As we see, Livingstone was 

 at Unyanyembe when a large trading party dropped in on 

 their way back to the king, who, it will be remembered, 

 lives on the north-western shores of the Victoria Nyassa.] 



9th April. — About 150 Waganga of Mteza carried a pre- 

 sent to Seyed Burghash, Sultan of Zanzibar, consisting of 

 ivory and a young elephant.* He spent all the ivory in 

 buying return presents of gunpowder, guns, soap, brandy, 

 gin, &c, and they have stowed it all in this Tembe. 



* This elephant was subsequently sent by Dr. Kirk to Sir Philip 

 Wodehouse, Governor of Bombay. When in Zanzibar it was perfectly 

 tame. We understand it is now in the possession of Sir Solar Jung, to 

 whom it was presented by Sir Philip Wodehouse. — Ed. 



