2nd August, 1869.—­We embarked from the islet and got over to the mainland, and slept in a hooked-thorn copse, with a species of black pepper plant, which we found near the top of Mount Zomba, in the Manganja country,[6] in our vicinity; it shows humidity of climate.

3rd August, 1869.—­Marched 3-1/4 hours south, along Tanganyika, in a very undulating country; very fatiguing in my weakness.  Passed many screw-palms, and slept at Lobamba village.

4th August, 1869.—­A relative of Kasanga engaged to act as our guide, so we remained waiting for him, and employed a Banyamwezi smith to make copper balls with some bars of that metal presented by Syde bin Habib.  A lamb wasstolen, and all declared that the deed must have been done by Banyamwezi.  “At Guha people never steal,” and I believe this is true.

7th August, 1869.—­The guide having arrived, we marched 2-1/4 hours west and crossed the River Logumba, about forty yards broad and knee deep, with a rapid current between deep cut banks; it rises in the western Kabogo range, and flows about S.W. into Tanganyika.  Much dura or Holcus sorghum is cultivated on the rich alluvial soil on its banks by the Guha people.

8th August, 1869.—­West through open forest; very undulating, and the path full of angular fragments of quartz.  We see mountains in the distance.

9th-10th August, 1869.—­Westwards to Makhato’s village, and met a company of natives beating a drum as they came near; this is the peace signal; if war is meant the attack is quiet and stealthy.  There are plenty of Masuko trees laden with fruit, but unripe.  It is cold at night, but dry, and the people sleep with only a fence at their heads, but I have a shed built at every camp as a protection for the loads, and sleep in it.

Any ascent, though gentle, makes me blow since the attack of pneumonia; if it is inclined to an angle of 45 deg., 100 or 150 yards make me stop to pant in distress.

11th August, 1869.—­Came to a village of Ba Rua, surrounded by hills of some 200 feet above the plain; trees sparse.

12th-13th August, 1869.—­At villages of Mekheto.  Guha people.  Remain to buy and prepare food, and because many are sick.

16th August, 1869.—­West and by north through much forest reach Kalalibebe; buffalo killed.

17th August, 1869.—­To a high mountain, Golu or Gulu, and sleep at its base.

18th August, 1869.—­Cross two rills flowing into River Mgoluye.  Kagoya and Moishe flow into Lobumba.

19th August, 1869.—­To the River Lobumba, forty-five yards Avide, thigh deep, and rapid current.  Logumba and Lobumba are both from Kabogo Mounts:  one goes into Tanganyika, and the other, or Lobumba, into and is the Luamo:  prawns are found in this river.  The country east of the Lobumba is called Lobanda, that west of it, Kitwa.