21st December, 1871.—­Heavy rains for planting now.

22nd December, 1871.—­Stanley ill of fever.

23rd December, 1871.—­Do. very ill.  Rainy and uncomfortable.

24th December, 1871.—­S. 25th.—­Christmas.  I leave here one bag of beads in a skin, 2 bags of Sungo mazi 746 and 756 blue.  Gardner’s bag of beads, soap 2 bars in 3 boxes (wood). 1st, tea and matunda; 2nd, wooden box, paper and shirts; 3rd, iron box, shoes, quinine, 1 bag of coffee, sextant stand, one long wooden box empty.  These are left with Mohamad bin Saleh at Ujiji, Christmas Day, 1871.  Two bags of beads are already here and table cloths.

26th December, 1871.—­Had but a sorry Christmas yesterday.

27th December, 1871.—­Mem.  To send Moenyeghere some coffee and tell his wishes to Masudi.

27th December, 1871.—­Left Ujiji 9 A.M., and crossed goats, donkeys, and men over Luiche.  Sleep at the Malagarasi.

29th December, 1871.—­Crossed over the broad bay of the Malagarasi to Kagonga and sleep.

30th December, 1871.—­Pass Viga Point, red sandstone, and cross the bay of the River Lugufu and Nkala village, and transport the people and goats:  sleep.

31st December, 1871.—­Send for beans, as there are no provisions in front of this.  Brown water of the Lugufu bent away north:  the high wind is S.W. and W. Having provisions we went round Munkalu Point.  The water is slightly discoloured for a mile south of it, but brown water is seen on the north side of bay bent north by a current.

1st January, 1872.—­May the Almighty help me to finish my work this year for Christ’s sake!  We slept in Mosehezi Bay.  I was storm-stayed in Kifwe Bay, which is very beautiful—­still as a millpond.  We found 12 or 13 hippopotami near a high bank, but did not kill any, for our balls are not hardened.  It is high rocky tree-covered shore, with rocks bent and twisted wonderfully; large slices are worn off the land with hillsides clad with robes of living green, yet very, very steep.

2nd January, 1872.—­A very broad Belt of large tussocks of reeds lines the shore near Mount Kibanga or Boumba.  We had to coast along to the south.  Saw a village nearly afloat, the people having there taken refuge from their enemies.  There are many hippopotami and crocodiles in Tanganyika.  A river 30 yards wide, the Kibanga, flows in strongly.  We encamped on an open space on a knoll and put up flags to guide our land party to us.

3rd January, 1872.—­We send off to buy food.  Mr. Stanley shot a fat zebra, its meat was very good.

4th January, 1872.—­The Ujijians left last night with their canoes.  I gave them 14 fundos of beads to buy food on the way.  We are now waiting for our land party.  I gave headmen here at Burimba 2 dotis and a Kitamba.  Men arrived yesterday or 4-1/2 days from the Lugufu.