25th November, 1871.—­We came on about two hours to some villages on a high bank where Mukamba is living.  The chief, a young good-looking man like Mugala, came and welcomed us.  Our friend of yesterday now declared as positively as before that the water of Lusize flowed into Tanganyika, and not the way he said yesterday!  I have not the smallest doubt but Tanganyika discharges somewhere, though we may be unable to find it.  Lusize goes to or comes from Luanda and Karagwe.  This is hopeful, but I suspend my judgment.  War rages between Mukamba and Wasmashanga or Uasmasane, a chief between this and Lusize:  ten men were killed of Mukamba’s people a few days ago.  Vast numbers of fishermen ply their calling night and day as far as we can see.  Tanganyika closes in except at one point N. and by W. of us.  The highest point of the western range, about 7000 feet above the sea, is Sumburuza.  We are to go to-morrow to Luhinga, elder brother of Mukamba, near Lusize, and the chief follows us next day.

26th November, 1871.—­Sunday.  Mr. Stanley has severe fever.  I gave Mukamba 9 dotis and 9 fundos.  The end of Tanganyika seen clearly is rounded off about 4’ broad from east to west.

27th November, 1871.—­Mr. Stanley is better.  We started at sunset westwards, then northwards for seven hours, and at 4 A.M. reached Lohinga, at the mouth of the Lusize.

28th November, 1871.—­Shot an Ibis religiosa. In the afternoon Luhinga, the superior of Mukambe, came and showed himself very intelligent.  He named eighteen rivers, four of which enter Tanganyika, and the rest Lusize:  all come into, none leave Tanganyika.[15] Lusize is said to rise in Kwangeregere in the Kivo lagoon, between Mutumbe and Luanda.  Nyabungu is chief of Mutumbe.  Luhinga is the most intelligent and the frankest chief we have seen here.

29th November, 1871.—­We go to see the Lusize Eiver in a canoe.  The mouth is filled with large reedy sedgy islets:  there are three branches, about twelve to fifteen yards broad, and one fathom deep, with a strong current of 2’ per hour:  water discoloured.  The outlet of the Lake is probably by the Longumba River into Lualaba as the Luamo, but this as yet must be set down as a “theoretical discovery.”

30th November, 1871.—­A large present of eggs, flour, and a sheep came from Mukamba.  Mr. Stanley went round to a bay in the west, to which the mountains come sheer down.

1st December, 1871, Friday.—­Latitude last night 3 deg. 18’ 3” S. I gave fifteen cloths to Lohinga, which pleased him highly.  Kuansibura is the chief who lives near Kivo, the lagoon from which the Lusize rises:  they say it flows under a rock.

2nd December, 1871.—­Ill from bilious attack.

3rd December, 1871.—­Better and thankful.  Men went off to bring Mukamba, whose wife brought us a handsome present of milk, beer, and cassava.  She is a good-looking young woman, of light colour and full lips, with two children of eight or ten years of age.  We gave them cloths, and sheasked beads, so we made them a present of two fundos.  By lunars I was one day wrong to-day.