194 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUKNALS. [Chap. VII. 



tain torrent must fall into Albert Lake, a giant at its 

 birth." How soothing to be positive. 



1st June, 1872. — Visited by Jemadar Hamees from Ka- 

 tanga, who gives the following information. 



Unyanyemb^, Tuesday. — Hamees bin Jumaadarsabel, a 

 Beluch, came here from Katanga to-day. He reports that 

 the three Portuguese traders, Jao, Domasiko, and Domasho, 

 came to Katanga from Matiamvo. They bought quantities 

 of ivory and returned : they were carried in Mashilahs * by 

 slaves. This Hamees gave them pieces of gold from the 

 rivulet there between the two copper or malachite hills from 

 which copper is dug. He says that Tipo Tipo is now at 

 Katanga, and has purchased much ivory from Kayomba or 

 Kayombo in Eua. He offers to guide me thither, going- 

 first to Merere's, where Amran Masudi has now the upper 

 hand, and Merere offers to pay all the losses he has caused 

 to Arabs and others. Two letters were sent by the Portu- 

 guese to the East Coast, one is in Amran's hands. Hamees 

 Wodin Tagh is alive and well. These Portuguese went 

 nowhere from Katanga, so that they have not touched the 

 sources of the Nile, for which I am thankful. 



Tipo Tipo has made friends with Merosi, the Monyamweze 

 headman at Katanga, by marrying his daughter, and has 

 formed the plan of assaulting Casembe in conjunction with 

 him because Casembe put six of Tipo Tipo's men to death. 

 He will now be digging gold at Katanga till this man 

 returns with gunpowder. 



[Many busy calculations are met with here which are too 

 involved to be given in detail. At one point we see a rough 

 conjecture as to the length of the road through Fipa.] • 



On looking at the projected route by Merere's I see 



The Portuguese name for palanquin. 



