6th October, 1868.—­Cross the Papusi, and a mile beyond the Luena of forty yards and knee deep; here we were met by about 400 of Kabanda’s men, as if they were come to dispute our passage at the ford:  I went over; all were civil; but had we shown any weakness they would no doubt have taken advantage of it.

7th October, 1868.—­We came to the Kalongosi, flowing over five cataracts made by five islets in a place called Kabwerume.  Near the Mebamba a goodly rivulet joins it.

12th October, 1868.—­We came to the Kalongosi at the ford named Mosolo:  by pacing I found it to be 240 yards broad, and thigh deep at the end of the dry season, it ran so strongly that it was with difficulty I could keep my feet.  Here 500 at least of Nsama’s people stood on the opposite shore to know what we wanted.  Two fathoms of calico were sent over, and then I and thirty guns went over to protect the people in the ford:  as we approached they retired.  I went to them, and told them that I had been to Nsama’s, and he gave me a goat and food, and we were good friends:  some had seen me there, and they now crowded to look till the Arabs thought it unsafe for me to be among them:  if I had come with bared skin they would have fled.  All became friendly:  an elephant was killed, and we remained two days buying food.  We passed down between the ranges of hills on the east of Moero, the path we followed when we first visited Casembe.

20th and 21st October, 1868.—­From the Luao I went over to the chief village of Muabo, and begged him to show me the excavations in his country:  he declined, by saying that I came from a crowd of people, and must go to Kabwabwata, and wait awhile there, meanwhile he would think what he should do, whether to refuse or invite me to come.  He evidently does not wish me to see his strongholds.  All his people could go into them, though over ten thousand:  they are all abundantly supplied with water, and they form the storehouses for grain.

22nd October, 1868.—­We came to Kabwabwata, and I hope I may find a way to other underground houses.  It is probable that they are not the workmanship of the ancestors of the present occupants, for they ascribe their formation invariably to the Deity, Mulungu or Reza:  if their forefathers had made them, some tradition would have existed of them.

23rd October, 1868.—­Syde bin Habib came over from Mpweto’s; he reports Lualaba and Lufira flowing into the Lake of Kinkonza.  Lungabale is paramount chief of Rua.

Mparahala horns measured three feet long and three inches in diameter at the base:  this is the yellow kualata of Makololo, bastard gemsbuck of the Dutch.

27th, 29th, and 30th October, 1868.—­Salem bin Habib was killed by the people in Rua:  he had put up a tent and they attacked it in the night, and stabbed him through it.  Syde bin Habib waged a war of vengeance all through Rua after this for the murder of his brother:  Sef’s raid may have led the people to the murder.