The Arabs tell me that Monyungo, a chief, was sent for five years among the Watuta to learn their language and ways, and he sent his two sons and a daughter to Zanzibar to school.  He kills many of his people, and says they are so bad that if not killed they would murder strangers.  Once they were unruly, when he ordered some of them to give their huts to Mohamad; on refusing, he put fire to them, and they soon called out, “Let them alone; we will retire.”  He dresses like an Arab, and has ten loaded guns at his sitting-place, four pistols, two swords, several spears, and two bundles of the Batuta spears:  he laments that his father filed his teeth when he was young.  The name of his very numerous people is Bawungu, country Urungu:  his other names are Ironga, Mohamu.

The Basango, on the other hand, consider their chief as a deity, and fear to say aught wrong, lest he should hear them:  they fear both before him and when out of sight.

The father of Merere never drank pombe or beer, and assigned as a reason that a great man who had charge of people’s lives should never become intoxicated so as to do evil.  Bange he never smoked, but in council smelled at a bunch of it, in order to make his people believe that it had a great effect on him.  Merere drinks pombe freely, but never uses bange:  he alone kills sheep; he is a lover of mutton and beef, but neither goats nor fowls are touched by him.

9th November, 1870.—­I sent to Lohombo for dura, and planted some Nyumbo.  I long excessively to be away and finish my work by the two Lacustrine rivers, Lualaba of Webb and Young, but wait only for Syde and Dugumbe, who may have letters, and as I do not intend to return hither, but go through Karagwe homewards, I should miss them altogether.  I groan and am in bitterness at the delay, but thus it is:  I pray for help to do what is right, but sorely am I perplexed, and grieved and mourn:  I cannot give up making a complete work of the exploration.

10th November, 1870.—­A party of Katomba’s men arrived on their way to Ujiji for carriers, they report that a foray was made S.W. of Mamohela to recover four guns, which were captured from Katomba; three were recovered, and ten of the Arab party slain.  The people of Manyuema fought very fiercely with arrows, and not till many were killed and others mutilated would they give up the guns; they probably expected this foray, and intended to fight till the last.  They had not gone in search of ivory while this was enacting, consequently Mohamad’s men have got the start of them completely, by going along Lualaba to Kasongo’s, and then along the western verge of the Metamba or forest to Loinde or Rindi River.  The last men sent took to fighting instead of trading, and returned empty; the experience gained thus, and at the south-west, will probably lead them to conclude that the Manyuema are not to be shot down without reasonable cause.  They have sown rice and maize at Mamohela, but cannot trade