9th November, 1868.—­Copied several Notes written at Kizinga and elsewhere, and at Kabwabwata resume Journal.  Some slight showers have cooled the air a little:  this is the hottest time of the year.

10th November, 1868.—­A heavier shower this morning will have more of the same effect.

11th November, 1868.—­Muabo visited this village, but refuses to show his underground houses.

13th November, 1868.—­I was on the point of starting without Mohamad Bogharib, but he begged me not to go till he had settled some weighty matter about a wife he is to get at Ujiji from Mpamari; we must have the new moon, which will appear in three days, for lucky starting, and will leave Syde bin Habib at Chisabi’s.  Meanwhile two women slaves ran away, and Syde has got only five back of his twenty-one fugitives.  Mullam was mild with his decisions, and returned here; he informed me that many of Syde’s slaves, about forty, fled.  Of those who cannot escape many die, evidently broken-hearted; they are captives, and not, as slaves often are, criminals sold for their guilt, hence the great mortality caused by being taken to the sea to be, as they believe, fatted and eaten.  Poor things!  Heaven help them!

Ujiji is the pronunciation of the Banyamwezi; and they call the people Wayeiye, exactly as the same people styled themselves on the River Zougha, near Ngami.

[It will be remembered that several of his men refused to go to Lake Bangweolo with him:  they seem now to have thought better of it, and on his return are anxious to come back to their old master who, for his part, is evidently willing to overlook a good deal.]

I have taken all the runaways back again; after trying the independent life they will behave better.  Much of their ill conduct may be ascribed to seeing that after the flight of the Johanna men I was entirely dependent on them:  more enlightened people often take advantage of men in similar circumstances; though I have seen pure Africans come out generously to aid one abandoned to their care.  I have faults myself.

15th November, 1868.—­The Arabs have some tradition of the Emir Musa coming as far south as the Jagga country.  Some say he lived N.E. of Sunna, now Mteza; but it is so mixed up with fable and tales of the Genii (Mageni), that it cannot refer to the great Moses, concerning whose residence at Meroee and marriage of the king of Ethiopia’s daughter there is also some vague tradition further north:  the only thing of interest to me is the city of Meroee, which is lost, and may, if built by ancient Egyptians, still be found.