7th October, 1872.—­Over fine park-like country, with large belts of bamboo and fine broad shady trees.  Went westwards to the end of the left-hand range.  Went four hours over a level forest with much haematite.  Trees large and open.  Large game evidently abounds, and waters generally are not far apart.  Our neighbour got a zebra, a rhinoceros, and two young elephants.

8th October, 1872.—­Came on early as sun is hot, and in two hours saw the Tanganyika from a gentle hill.  The land is rough, with angular fragments of quartz; the rocks of mica schist are tilted up as if away from the Lake’s longer axis.  Some are upright, and some have basalt melted into the layers, and crystallized in irregular polygons.  All are very tired, and in coming to a stockade we were refused admittance, because Malongwana had attacked them lately, and we might seize them when in this stronghold.  Very true; so we sit ontside in the shade of a single palm (Borassus).

9th October, 1872.—­Rest, because all are tired, and several sick.  This heat makes me useless, and constrains me to lie like a log.  Inwardly I feel tired too.  Jangeange leaves us to-morrow, having found canoes going to Ujiji.

10th October, 1872.—­People very tired, and it being moreover Sunday we rest.  Gave each a keta of beads.  Usowa chief Ponda.

11th October, 1872.—­Reach Kalema district after 2-3/4 hours over black mud all deeply cracked, and many deep torrents now dry.  Kalema is a stockade.  We see Tanganyika, but a range of low hills intervenes.  A rumour of war to-morrow.

12th October, 1872.—­We wait till 2 P.M., and then make a forced march towards Fipa.  The people cultivate but little, for fear of enemies; so we can buy few provisions.  We left a broad valley with a sand river in it, where we have been two days, and climbed a range of hills parallel to Tanganyika, of mica schist and gneiss, tilted away from the Lake.  We met a buffalo on the top of one ridge, it was shot into and lay down, but we lost it.  Course S.W. to brink of Tanganyika water.

13th October, 1872.—­Our course went along the top of a range of hills lying parallel with the Lake.  A great part of yesterday was on the same range.  It is a thousand feet above the water, and is covered with trees rather scraggy.  At sunset the red glare on the surface made the water look like a sea of reddish gold; it seemed so near that many went off to drink, but were three or four hours in doing so.  One cannot see the other side on account of the smokes in the air, but this morning three capes jut out, and the last bearing S.E. from our camp seems to go near the other side.  Very hot weather.  To the town of Fipa to-morrow.  Course about S. Though we suffer much from the heat by travelling at this season, we escape a vast number of running and often muddy rills, also muddy paths which would soon knock the donkey up.  A milk-and-water