Went on and passed a large arm of Tanganyika, having a bar of hills on its outer border.  Country swarming with large game.  Passed two bomas, and spent the night near one of them.  Course east and then south.

21st October, 1872.—­Mokassa, a Moganda boy, has a swelling of the ankle, which prevents his walking.  We went one hour to find wood to make a litter for him.  The bomas round the villages are plastered with mud, so as to intercept balls or arrows.  The trees are all cut down for these stockades, and the flats are cut up with deep gullies.  A great deal of cotton is cultivated, of which the people make their cloth.  There is an arm of Tanganyika here called Kafungia.

I sent a doti to the headman of the village, where we made the litter, to ask for a guide to take us straight south instead of going east to Fipa, which is four days off and out of our course.  Tipo Tipo is said to be at Morero, west of Tanganyika.

22nd October, 1872.—­Turned back westwards, and went through the hills down to some large islets in the Lake, and camped in villages destroyed by Simba.  A great deal of cotton is cultivated here, about thirty feet above the Lake.

23rd October, 1872.—­First east, and then passed two deep bays, at one of which we put up, as they had food to sell.  The sides of the Tanganyika Lake are a succession of rounded bays, answering to the valleys which trend down to the shore between the numerous ranges of hills.  In Lake Nyassa they seem made by the prevailing winds.  We only get about one hour and a half south and by east.  Rain probably fell last night, for the opposite shore is visible to-day.  The mountain range of Banda slopes down as it goes south.  This is the district of Motoshi.  Wherever buffaloes are to be caught, falling traps are suspended over the path in the trees near the water.

24th October, 1872.—­There are many rounded bays in mountainous Fipa.  We rested two hours in a deep shady dell, and then came along a very slippery mountain-side to a village in a stockade.  It is very hot to-day, and the first thunderstorm away in the east.  The name of this village is Linde.

25th October, 1872.—­The coast runs south-south-east to a cape.  We went up south-east, then over a high steep hill to turn to south again, then down into a valley of Tanganyika, over another stony side, and down to a dell with a village in it.  The west coast is very plain to-day; rain must have fallen there.

26th October, 1872.—­Over hills and mountains again, past two deep bays, and on to a large bay with a prominent islet on the south side of it, called Kitanda, from the chiefs name.  There is also a rivulet of fine water of the same name here.

27th October, 1872.—­Remained to buy food, which is very dear.  We slaughtered a tired cow to exchange for provisions.