23rd September, 1871.—­We now passed through the country of mixed Barua and Baguha, crossed the River Longumba twice and then came near the great mountain mass on west of Tanganyika.  From Mokwaniwa’s to Tanganyika is about ten good marches through open forest.  The Guha people are not very friendly; they know strangers too well to show kindness:  like Manyuema, they are also keen traders.  I was sorely knocked up by this march from Nyangwe back to Ujiji.  In the latter part of it, I felt as if dying on my feet.  Almost every step was in pain, the appetite failed, and a little bit of meat caused violent diarrhoea, whilst the mind, sorely depressed, reacted on the body.  All the traders were returning successful:  I alone had failed and experienced worry, thwarting, baffling, when almost in sight of the end towards which I strained.

3rd October, 1871.—­I read the whole Bible through four times whilst I was in Manyuema.

8th October, 1871.—­The road covered with angular fragments of quartz was very sore to my feet, which are crammed into ill-made French shoes.  How the bare feet of the men and women stood out, I don’t know; it was hard enough on mine though protected by the shoes.  We marched in the afternoons where water at this season was scarce.  The dust of the march caused ophthalmia, like that which afflicted Speke:  this was my first touch of it in Africa.  We now came to the Lobumba River, which flows into Tanganyika, and then to the village Loanda and sent to Kasanga, the Guha chief, for canoes.  The Longumba rises, like the Lobumba, in the mountains called Kabogo West.  We heard great noises, as if thunder, as far as twelve days off, which were ascribed to Kabogo, as if it had subterranean caves into which the waves rushed with great noise, and it may be that the Longumba is the outlet of Tanganyika:  it becomes the Luasse further down, and then the Luamo before it joins the Lualaba:  the country slopes that way, but I was too ill to examine its source.

9th October, 1871.—­On to islet Kasenge.  After much delay got a good canoe for three dotis, and on 15th October, 1871 went to the islet Kabiziwa.

18th October, 1871.—­Start for Kabogo East, and 19th reach it 8 A.M.

20th October, 1871.—­Rest men.

22nd October, 1871.—­To Rombola.

23rd October, 1871.—­At dawn, off and go to Ujiji.  Welcomed by all the Arabs, particularly by Moenyeghere.  I was now reduced to a skeleton, but the market being held daily, and all kinds of native food brought to it, I hoped that food and rest would soon restore me, but in the evening my people came and told me that Shereef had sold off all my goods, and Moenyeghere confirmed it by saying, “We protested, but he did not leave a single yard of calico out of 3000, nor a string of beads out of 700 lbs.”  This was distressing.  I had made up my mind, if I could not get people at Ujiji, to wait till men