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it now ! A continuous fusilacle along his line of march west 

 will expend much powder, but possibly get the spirits up. 

 If successful, we shall get Banyamwezi pagazi in numbers. 



Mirambo is reported to have sent 100 tusks and 100 

 slaves towards the coast to buy gunpowder. If true, the war 

 is still far from being finished ; but falsehood is fashionable. 



26th June. — Went over to Kwikuru and engaged 

 Mohamad bin Seyde to speak to Nkasiwa for pagazi; he 

 wishes to go himself. The people sent by Mirambo to 

 buy gunpowder in Ugogo came to Kitambi, he reported the 

 matter to Nkasiwa that they had come, and gave them 

 pombe. When Lewale heard it, he said, " Why did Kitambi 

 not kill them; he is a partaker in Mirambo's guilt?" A 

 large gathering yesterday at M'futu to make an assault on 

 the last stockade in hostility. 



[A few notes in another pocket-book are placed under 

 this date. Thus : — ] 



24th June. — A continuous covering of forests is a sign 

 of a virgin country. The earlier seats of civilization 

 are bare and treeless according to Humboldt. The civili- 

 zation of the human race sets bounds to the increase of 

 forests. It is but recently that sylvan decorations rejoice 

 the eyes of the Northern Europeans. The old forests attest 

 the youthfulness of our civilization. The aboriginal woods 

 of Scotland are but recently cut down. (Hugh Miller's 

 Sketches, p. 7.) 



Mosses often evidence the primitive state of things at the 

 time of the Eoman invasion. Eoman axe like African, a 

 narrow chisel-shaped tool, left sticking in the stumps. 



The medical education has led me to a continual tendency 

 to suspend the judgment. What a state of blessedness it 

 would have been had I possessed the dead certainty of the 

 homoeopathic persuasion, and as soon as I found the Lakes 

 Bangweolo, Moero, and Kamolondo pouring out their waters 



