198 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUENALS. [Chap. VII. 



" Let us wait and see the men arrive, to confirm or reject 

 them." I incline to belief, because he says that he did 

 not see the men, but heard of them at Bagamoio. 



16th June. — Nsare chief, Msalala, came selling from 

 Sakuma on the north — a jocular man, always a favourite 

 with the ladies. He offered a hoe as a token of friendship, 

 but I bought it, as we are, I hope, soon going off, and it 

 clears the tent floor and ditch round it in wet weather. 



Mirambo made a sortie against a headman in alliance 

 with the Arabs, and was quite successful, which shows that 

 he is not so much reduced as reports said. 



Boiling points to-day about 9 a.m. There is a full degree 



of difference between boiling in an open pot and in Casella's 



apparatus. 



205° "1 open pot 



206° -1 Casella 



About 200 Baguha came here, bringing much ivory and 

 palm oil for sale because there is no market nor goods at 

 Ujiji for the produce. A few people came also from 

 Buganda, bringing four tusks and an invitation to Seyed 

 Burghash to send for two housefuls of ivory which Mteza 

 has collected. 



18th June. — Sent over a little quinine to Sultan bin 

 Ali — he is ailing of fever — and a glass of " Moiko " the 

 shameful ! 



The Ptolemaic map defines people according to their 

 food. The Elephantophagi, the Struthiophagi, the Ichthyo- 

 phagi, and Anthropophagi. If we followed the same sort of 

 classification our definition would be the drink, thus : — the 

 tribe of stout-guzzlers, the roaring potheen-fuddlers, the 

 whisky-fishoid-drinkers, the vin-ordinaire bibbers, the lager- 

 beer-swillers, and an outlying tribe of the brandy cocktail 

 persuasion. 



[His keen enjoyment in noticing the habits of animals 



