222 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUENALS. [Chap. VIIL 



fast at Unyanyeinbe' the whole of this time : it does not 

 appear at all who the missionary was to whom he refers.] 



Lewale sends off the Baganda in a great hurry, after 

 detaining them for six months or more till the war ended, 

 and he now gets pagazi of Banyamwezi for them. This 

 haste (though war is not ended) is probably because Lewale 

 has heard of a missionary through me. 



Mirambo fires now from inside the stockade alone. 



19th July. — Visited Salim bin Seff, and was very hos- 

 pitably entertained. He was disappointed that I could 

 not eat largely. They live very comfortably : grow wheat, 

 whilst flour and fruits grace their board. Salim says that 

 goat's flesh at Zanzibar is better than beef, but here beef is 

 better than goat's flesh. He is a stout, jolly fellow. 



20th July. - — High cold winds prevail. Temperature, 

 6 a.m., 57° ; noon, on the ground, 122°. It may be higher, 

 but I am afraid to risk the thermometer, which is graduated 

 to 140° only. 



21st July. — Bought two milch cows (from a Motusi), 

 which, with their calves, were 17 clotis or 34 fathoms. The 

 Baganda are packing up to leave for home. They take a 

 good deal of brandy and gin for Mtesa from the Moslems. 

 Temperature at noon, 96°. 



Another nest of wagtails flown. They eat bread crumbs. 

 The whydahs are busy pairing. Lewale returns to-day 

 from M'futu on his own private business at Kwikuru. The 

 success of the war is a minor consideration with all. I wish 

 my men would come, and let me off from this weary waiting. 



Some philosophising is curious. It represents our Maker 

 forming the machine of the universe : setting it a-going, 

 and able to do nothing more outside certain of His own 

 laws. He, as it were, laid the egg of the whole, and, like an 

 ostrich, left it to be hatched by the sun. We can control 

 laws, but He cannot! A fire set to this house would con- 



