1st September, 1872.—­The same flat forest to Chikulu, S. and by W., 4 hours 25 m.  Manyara called, and is going with us to-morrow.  Jangiange presented a leg of Kongolo or Taghetse, having a bunch of white hair beneath the orbital sinus.  Bought food and served out rations to the men for ten days, as water is scarce, and but little food can be obtained at the villages.  The country is very dry and wintry-looking, but flowers shoot out.  First clouds all over to-day.  It is hot now.  A flock of small swallows now appears:  they seem tailless and with white bellies.

2nd September, 1872.—­The people are preparing their ten days’ food.  Two pagazi ran away with 24 dotis of the men’s calico.  Sent after them, but with small hopes of capturing them.

3rd September, 1872.—­Unsuccessful search.

4th September, 1872.—­Leave Chikulu’s, and pass a large puff-adder in the way.  A single blow on the head killed it, so that it did not stir.  About 3 feet long, and as thick as a man’s arm, a short tail, and flat broad head.  The men say this is a very good sign for our journey, though it would have been a bad sign, and suffering and death, had one trodden on it.  Come to Liwane; large tree and waters.  S.S.W. 4-1/2 hours.

5th September, 1872.—­A long hot tramp to Manyara’s.  He is a kind old man.  Many of the men very tired and sick.  S.S.W. 5-3/4 hours.

6th September, 1872.—­Rest the caravan, as we shall have to make forced marches on account of tsetse fly.

7th September, 1872.—­Obliged to remain, as several are ill with fever.

8th September, 1872.—­On to N’gombo nullah.  Very hot and people ill.  Tsetse.  A poor woman of Ujiji followed one of Stanley’s men to the coast.  He cast her off here, and she was taken by another; but her temper seems too excitable.  She set fire to her hut by accident, and in the excitement quarrelled all round; she is a somebody’s bairn nevertheless, a tall, strapping young woman, she must have been the pride of her parents.

9th September, 1872.—­Telekeza[24] at broad part of the nullah, then went on two hours and passed the night in the forest.

10th September, 1872.—­On to Mweras, and spent one night there by a pool in the forest.  Village two miles off.

11th September, 1872.—­On 8-1/2 hours to Telekeza.  Sun very hot, and marching fatiguing to all.

Majwara has an insect in the aqueous chamber of his eye.  It moves about and is painful.

We found that an old path from Mwaro has water, and must go early to-morrow morning, and so avoid the roundabout by Morefu.  We shall thus save two days, which in this hot weather is much for us.  We hear that Simba has gone to fight with Fipa.  Two Banyamwezi volunteer. 12th September, 1872.—­We went by this water till 2 P.M., then made a march, and to-morrow get to villages.  Got a buffalo and remain overnight.  Water is in haematite.  I engaged four pagazi here, named Motepatonze, Nsakusi, Muanamazungu, and Mayombo.