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man's arm, a short tail, and flat broad head. The men say 

 this is a very good sign for our journey, though it would 

 have been a bad sign, and suffering and death, had one 

 trodden on it. Come to Liwane; large tree and waters. 

 S.S.W. 4i hours. 



5th September. — A long hot tramp to Manyara's. He is a 

 kind old man. Many of the men very tired and sick. 

 S.S.W. 5| hours. 



6th September. — Eest the caravan, as we shall have to 

 make forced marches on account of tsetse fly. 



1th September. — Obliged to remain, as several are ill with 

 fever. 



8th September.— On to N'gombo nullah. Very hot and 

 people ill. Tsetse. A poor woman of Ujiji followed one 

 of Stanley's men to the coast. He cast her off here, and she 

 was taken by another ; but her temper seems too excitable. 

 She set fire to her hut by accident, and in the excitement 

 quarrelled all round; she is a somebody's bairn neverthe- 

 less, a tall, strapping young woman, she must have been 

 the pride of her parents. 



9th September. — Telekeza* at broad part of the nullah, 

 then went on two hours and passed the night in the forest. 



10th September. — On to Mweras, and spent one night there 

 by a pool in the forest. Village two miles off. 



11th September. — On 8£ hours to Telekeza. Sun very 

 hot, and marching fatiguing to all. 



Majwara has an insect in the aqueous chamber of his eye. 

 It moves about and is painful. 



We found that an old path from Mwaro has water, and 

 must go early to-morrow morning, and so avoid the round- 

 about by Morefu. We shall thus save two days, which in 

 this hot weather is much for us. We hear that Simba has 

 gone to fight with Fipa. Two Banyamwezi volunteer. 



* Midday halt. 



