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5th December. — The people eat mushrooms and leaves. 

 My men returned about 5 p.m. with two of Kafimbe"s men 

 bringing a present of food to me. A little was bought, and 

 we go on to-morrow to sleep two nights on the way, and so 

 to Kafimbe, who is a brother of Nsama's, and fights him. 



6th December. — We cross the Lampussi again, and up to a 

 mountain along which we go, and then down to some ruins. 

 This took us five hours, and then with 2\ more hours we 

 reach Sintila. We hasten along as fast as hungry men 

 (four of them sick) can go to get food. 



1th December. — Off at 6.15 a.m. A leopard broke in upon 

 us last night and bit a woman. She screamed, and so did 

 the donkey, and it ran off. Our course lay along between 

 two ranges of low hills, then, where they ended, we went by 

 a good-sized stream thirty yards or so across, and then down 

 into a valley to Kafimbe's. 



8th December. — Very heavy rains. I visited Kafimbe. He 

 is an intelligent and pleasant young man, who has been 

 attacked several times by Kitandula, the successor of 

 Nsama of Itawa, and compelled to shift from Motononga 

 to this rivulet Motosi, which flows into the Kisi and thence 

 into Lake Moero. 



9th December. — Send off men to a distance for food, and 

 wait of course. Here there is none for either love or money. 

 To-day a man came from the Arab party at Kumba- 

 Kumba's with a present of M'chele and a goat. He reports 

 that they have killed Casembe, whose people concealed from 

 him the approach of the enemy till they were quite near. 

 Having no stockade, he fell an easy prey to them. The 

 conquerors put his head and all his ornaments on poles. 

 His pretty wife escaped over Mofwe, and the slaves of the 

 Arabs ran riot everywhere. We sent a return present of 

 two dotis of cloth, one jorah of Kanike, one doti of coloured 

 cloth, three pounds of beads, and a paper of needles. 



10th December. — Left Kafimbe's. He gave us three men 



