After Sangara came, I went over to Kukuru to see what the Lewale had received, but he was absent at Tabora.  A great deal of shouting, firing of guns, and circumgyration by the men who had come from the war just outside the stockade of Nkisiwa (which is surrounded by a hedge of dark euphorbia and stands in a level hollow) was going on as we descended the gentle slope towards it.  Two heads had been put up as trophies in the village, and it was asserted that Marukwe, a chief man of Mirambo, had been captured at Uvinza, and his head would soon come too.  It actually did come, and was put up on a pole.

I am most unfeignedly thankful that Stanley and Webb have acted nobly.

14th June, 1872.—­On 22nd June Stanley was 100 days gone:  he must be in London now.

Seyed bin Mohamad Margibbe called to say that he was going off towards Katanga to-morrow by way of Amran.  I feel inclined to go by way of Fipa rather, though I should much like to visit Merere.  By the bye, he says too that the so-called Portuguese had filed teeth, and are therefore Mambarre.

15th June, 1872.—­Lewale doubts Sangara on account of having brought no letters.  Nothing can be believed in this land unless it is in black and white, and but little even then; the most circumstantial details are often mere figments of the brain.  The one half one hears may safely be called false, and the other half doubtful or not proven.

Sultan bin Ali doubts Sangara’s statements also, but says, “Let us wait and see the men arrive, to confirm or reject them.”  I incline to belief, because he says that he did not see the men, but heard of them at Bagamoio.

16th June, 1872.—­Nsare chief, Msalala, came selling from Sakuma on the north—­a jocular man, always a favourite with the ladies.  He offered a hoe as a token of friendship, but I bought it, as we are, I hope, soon going off, and it clears the tent floor and ditch round it in wet weather.

Mirambo made a sortie against a headman in alliance with the Arabs, and was quite successful, which shows that he is not so much reduced as reports said.

Boiling points to-day about 9 A.M.  There is a full degree of difference between boiling in an open pot and in Casella’s apparatus.

205 deg..1 open pot }
} 69 deg. air.
206 deg..1 Casella }

About 200 Baguha came here, bringing much ivory and palm oil for sale because there is no market nor goods at Ujiji for the produce.  A few people came also from Buganda, bringing four tusks and an invitation to Seyed Burghash to send for two housefuls of ivory which Mteza has collected.

18th June, 1872.—­Sent over a little quinine to Sultan bin Ali—­he is ailing of fever—­and a glass of “Moiko” the shameful!

The Ptolemaic map defines people according to their food.  The Elephantophagi, the Struthiophagi, the Ichthyophagi, and Anthropophagi.  If we followed the same sort of classification our definition would be the drink, thus:—­the tribe of stout-guzzlers, the roaring potheen-fuddlers, the whisky-fishoid-drinkers, the vin-ordinaire bibbers, the lager-beer-swillers, and an outlying tribe of the brandy cocktail persuasion.