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Tipo is reported to be carrying it with a high hand in 

 Nsama's country, Itawa, insisting that all the ivory must 

 be brought as his tribute — the conqueror of Nsama. Our 

 drum is the greatest object of curiosity we have to the 

 Banyamwezi. A very great deal of cotton is cultivated all 

 along the shores of Lake Tanganyika ; it is the Pernambuco 

 kind, with the seeds clinging together, but of good and long 

 fibre, and the trees are left standing all the year to enable 

 them to become large ; grain and ground-nuts are cultivated 

 between them. The cotton is manufactured into coarse 

 cloth, which is the general clothing of all. 



14:th October. — Crossed two deep gullies with sluggish 

 water in them, and one surrounding an old stockade. Camp 

 on a knoll, overlooking modern stockade and Tanganyika 

 very pleasantly. Saw two beautiful sultanas with azure 

 blue necks. We might have come here yesterday, but were 

 too tired. Mukembe land is ruled by chief Kariaria ; village, 

 Mokaria. Mount M'Pumbwe goes into the Lake. N'Tambwe 

 Mount ; village, Kafuinfwe. Kapufi is the chief of Fipa. 



Noon, and about fifty feet above Lake; clouded over. 

 Temperature 91° noon ; 94° 3 p.m. 



15th October. — Rest, and kill an ox. The dry heat is dis- 

 tressing, and all feel it sorely. I am right glad of the 

 rest, but keep on as constantly as I can. By giving dura 

 and maize to the donkeys, and riding on alternate days, they 

 hold on; but I feel the sun more than if walking. The 

 chief Kariaria is civil. 



16th October. — Leave Mokaia and go south. We crossed 

 several bays of Tanganyika, the path winding considerably. 

 The people set fire to our camp as soon as we started. 



17th October. — Leave a bay of Tanganyika, and go on to 

 Mpimbwe ; two lions growled savagely as we passed. Game 

 is swarming here, but my men cannot shoot except to make 

 a noise. We found many lepidosirens in a muddy pool, 

 which a group of vultures were catching and eating. The 



