First rains of this season on the 5th.
_10th October, 1867._--I had a long conversation with Syde, who thinks that the sun rises and sets because the Koran says so, and he sees it.
He asserts that Jesus foretold the coming of Mohamad; and that it was not Jesus who suffered on the cross but a substitute, it being unlikely that a true prophet would be put to death so ignominiously.
He does not understand how we can be glad that our Saviour died for our sins.
_12th October, 1867._--An elephant killed by Tipo Tipo's men.

It is always clouded over, and often not a breath of air stirring.
_16th October, 1867._--A great many of the women of this district and of Lopere have the swelled thyroid gland called _goitre_ or Derbyshire neck; men, too, appeared with it, and they in addition have hydrocele of large size.
An Arab who had been long ill at Chitimba's died yesterday, and was buried in the evening.

No women were allowed to come near.

A long silent prayer was uttered over the corpse when it was laid beside the grave, and then a cloth was held over as men in it deposited the remains beneath sticks placed slanting on the side of the bottom of the grave; this keeps the earth from coming directly into contact with the body.
A feast was made by the friends of the departed, and portions sent to all who had attended the funeral: I got a good share.
_18th October, 1867._--The last we hear of Nsama is that he will not interfere with Chikongo.

Two wives beat drums and he dances to them; he is evidently in his dotage.