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remain, as we got only driblets in the last two camps. Met 

 two Banyamwezi carrying salt to Lobemba, of Moambu. 

 They went to Kabuire for it, and now retail it on the way 

 back. 



At noon we got to the village of Kasiane, which is close 

 to two rivulets, named Lopanza and Lolela. The headman, 

 a relative of Nsama, brought me a large present of flour of 

 dura, and I gave him two fathoms of calico. 



Floods by these sporadic rainfalls have discoloured waters, 

 as seen in Lopanza and Lolela to-day. The grass is all 

 springing up quickly, and the Maleza growing fast. The 

 trees generally in full foliage. Different shades of green, 

 the dark prevailing ; especially along rivulets, and the hills 

 in the distance are covered with dark blue haze. Here, in 

 Lobemba, they are gentle slopes of about 200 or 300 feet, 

 and sandstone crops out over their tops. In some parts clay 

 schists appear, which look as if they had been fused or were 

 baked by intense heat. 



The pugnacious spirit is one of the necessities of life. 

 When people have little or none of it, they are subjected to 

 indignity and loss. My own men walk into houses where we 

 pass the nights without asking any leave, and steal cassava 

 without shame. I have to threaten and thrash to keep 

 them honest, while if we are at a village where the natives 

 are a little pugnacious they are as meek as sucking doves. 

 The peace plan involves indignity and wrong. I give little 

 presents to the headmen, and to some extent heal their hurt 

 sensibilities. This is indeed much appreciated, and produces 

 profound hand-clapping. 



11th December. — It looked rainy, but Ave waited half-an- 

 hour, and then went on one hour and a half, when it set in 

 and forced us to seek shelter in a village. The head of it 

 was very civil, and gave us two baskets of cassava, and one 

 of dura. I gave a small present first. The district is called 

 Kisinga, and flanks the Kalongweze. 



