Chitimba's people are fighting for the chieftainship: great hunger prevails there now, the Arabs having bought up all the food.
Moriri, a chief dispossessed of his country by Nsama, wished Hamees to restore his possessions, but Hamees said that he had made peace, and would not interfere.
This unfavourable news from a part where the chief results of their trading were deposited, made Syde and Tipo Tipo decide to remain in Buire only ten or twenty days, send out people to buy what ivory they could find, and then, retire.
As Syde and Tipo Tipo were sending men to Casembe for ivory, I resolved to go thither first, instead of shaping my course for Ujiji.
Very many cases of goitre in men and women here: I see no reason for it.

This is only 3350 feet above the sea.
_7th November, 1867._--Start for Moero, convoyed by all the Arabs for some distance: they have been extremely kind.

We draw near to the mountain-range on our left, called Kakoma, and sleep at one of Kaputa's villages, our course now being nearly south.
_8th November, 1867._--Villages are very thickly studded over the valley formed by Kakoma range, and another at a greater distance on our right; 100 or 200 yards is a common distance between these villages, which, like those in Londa, or Lunda, are all shaded with trees of a species of _Ficus indica_.

One belongs to Puta, and this Puta, the paramount chief, sent to say that if we slept there, and gave him a cloth, he would send men to conduct us next day, and ferry us across: I was willing to remain, but his people would not lend a hut, so we came on to the Lake, and no ferry.

Probably he thought that we were going across the Lualaba into Rua.
Lake Moero seems of goodly size, and is flanked by ranges of mountains on the east and west.