11th February, 1871.—­Men struck work for higher wages:  I consented to give them six dollars a month if they behaved well; if ill I diminish it, so we hope to start to-morrow.  Another hunting quelled by Mohamad and me.

The ten men sent are all slaves of the Banians, who are English subjects, and they come with a lie in their mouth:  they will not help me, and swear that the Consul told them not to go forward, but to force me back, and they spread the tale all over the country that a certain letter has been sent to me with orders to return forthwith.  They swore so positively that I actually looked again at Dr. Kirk’s letter to see if his orders had been rightly understood by me.  But for Mohamad Bogharib and fear of pistol-shot they would gain their own and their Banian masters’ end to baffle me completely; they demand an advance of one dollar, or six dollars a month, though this is double freeman’s pay at Zanzibar.  Their two headmen, Shereef and Awathe, refused to come past Ujiji, and are revelling on my goods there.

13th February, 1871.—­Mabruki being seized with choleraic purging detains us to-day.  I gave Mohamad five pieces Americano, five ditto Kanike,[13] and two frasilahs samisami beads.  He gives me a note to Hassani for twenty thick copper bracelets.  Yesterday crowds came to eat the meat of the man who misled James to his death spot:  but we want the men who set the Mbanga men to shoot him:  they were much disappointed when they found that no one was killed, and are undoubtedly cannibals.

16th, February, 1871.—­Started to-day.  Mabruki making himself out very ill, Mohamad roused him out by telling him I travelled when much worse.  The chief gave me a goat, and Mohamad another, but in coming through the forest on the neck of the mountain the men lost three, and have to go back for them, and return to-morrow.  Simon and Ibram were bundled out of the camp, and impudently followed me:  when they came up, I told them to be off.

17th February, 1871.—­Waiting at a village on the Western slope for the men to come up with the goats, if they have gone back to the camp.  Mohamad would not allow the deserters to remain among his people, nor would I. It would only be to imbue the minds of my men with their want of respect for all English, and total disregard of honesty and honour:  they came after me with inimitable effrontery, believing that though I said I would not take them, they were so valuable, I was only saying what I knew to be false.  The goats were brought by a Manyuema man, who found one fallen into a pitfall and dead; he ate it, and brought one of his own in lieu of it.  I gave him ten strings of beads, and he presented a fowl in token of goodwill.

18th February, 1871.—­Went on to a village on the Lulwa, and on the 19th reached Moenemgoi, who dissuaded me so earnestly against going to Moenekurumbo for the cause of Molembalemba that I agreed not to venture.