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sick. This heat makes me useless, and constrains me to lie 

 like a log. Inwardly I feel tired too. Jangeange leaves 

 lis to-morrow, having found canoes going to Ujiji. 



10th October. — People very tired, and it being moreover 

 Sunday we rest. Gave each a keta of beads. Usowa chief 

 Ponda. 



11th October. — Reach Ivalema district after 2£ hours over 

 black mud all deeply cracked, and many deep torrents 

 now dry. Kalema is a stockade. We see Tanganyika, 

 but a range of low hills intervenes. A rumour of war 

 to-morrow. 



12th October. — We wait till 2 p.m., and then make a 

 forced march towards Fipa. The people cultivate but little, 

 for fear of enemies ; so we can buy few provisions. We left 

 a broad valley with a sand river in it, where we have been 

 two days, and climbed a range of hills parallel to Tanganyika, 

 of mica schist and gneiss, tilted away from the Lake. We 

 met a buffalo on the top of one ridge, it was shot into and 

 lay down, but we lost it. Course S.W. to brink of Tan- 

 ganyika water. 



13th October. — Our course went along the top of a range 

 of hills lying parallel with the Lake. A great part of 

 yesterday was on the same range. It is a thousand feet 

 above the water, and is covered with trees rather scraggy. 

 At sunset the red glare on the surface made the water look 

 like a sea of reddish gold; it seemed so near that many 

 went off to drink, but were three or four hours in doing so. 

 One cannot see the other side on account of the smokes in the 

 air, but this morning three capes jut out, and the last bear- 

 ing S.E. from our camp seems to go near the other side. 

 Very hot weather. To the town of Fipa to-morrow. Course 

 about S. Though we suffer much from the heat by travel- 

 ling at this season, we escape a vast number of running and 

 often muddy rills, also muddy paths which would soon knock 

 the donkey up. A milk-and-water sky portends rain. Tipo 



