sky portends rain.  Tipo Tipo is reported to be carrying it with a high hand in Nsama’s country, Itawa, insisting that all the ivory must be brought as his tribute—­the conqueror of Nsama.  Our drum is the greatest object of curiosity we have to the Banyamwezi.  A very great deal of cotton is cultivated all along the shores of Lake Tanganyika; it is the Pernambuco kind, with the seeds clinging together, but of good and long fibre, and the trees are left standing all the year to enable them to become large; grain and ground-nuts are cultivated between them.  The cotton is manufactured into coarse cloth, which is the general clothing of all.

14th October, 1872.—­Crossed two deep gullies with sluggish water in them, and one surrounding an old stockade.  Camp on a knoll, overlooking modern stockade and Tanganyika very pleasantly.  Saw two beautiful sultanas with azure blue necks.  We might have come here yesterday, but were too tired.  Mukembe land is ruled by chief Kariaria; village, Mokaria.  Mount M’Pumbwe goes into the Lake.  N’Tambwe Mount; village, Kafumfwe.  Kapufi is the chief of Fipa.

Noon, and about fifty feet above Lake; clouded over.  Temperature 91 deg. noon; 94 deg. 3 P.M.

15th October, 1872.—­Rest, and kill an ox.  The dry heat is distressing, and all feel it sorely.  I am right glad of the rest, but keep on as constantly as I can.  By giving dura and maize to the donkeys, and riding on alternate days, they hold on; but I feel the sun more than if walking.  The chief Kariaria is civil.

16th October, 1872.—­Leave Mokaia and go south.  We crossed several bays of Tanganyika, the path winding considerably.  The people set fire to our camp as soon as we started.

17th October, 1872.—­Leave a bay of Tanganyika, and go on to Mpimbwe; two lions growled savagely as we passed.  Game is swarming here, but my men cannot shoot except to make a noise.  We found many lepidosirens in a muddy pool, which a group of vultures were catching and eating.  The men speared one of them, which had scales on; its tail had been bitten off by a cannibal brother:  in length it was about two feet:  there were curious roe-like portions near its backbone, yellow in colour; the flesh was good.  We climbed up a pass at the east end of Mpimbwe mountain, and at a rounded mass of it found water.

18th October, 1872.—­Went on about south among mountains all day till we came down, by a little westing, to the Lake again, where there were some large villages, well stockaded, with a deep gully half round them.  Ill with my old complaint again.  Bubwe is the chief here.  Food dear, because Simba made a raid lately.  The country is Kilando.

19th October, 1872.—­Remained to prepare food and rest the people.  Two islets, Nkoma and Kalenge, are here, the latter in front of us.

20th October, 1872.—­We got a water-buck and a large buffalo, and remained during the forenoon to cut up the meat, and started at 2 P.M.