An increase of cold was caused by the wind coming from the south.

We have good accounts of the Wasongo from all the Arabs, their houses built for cattle are flat-roofed and enormously large; one, they say, is a quarter of a mile long.

Merere the chief has his dwelling-house within it: milk, butter, cheese, are in enormous quantities; the tribe, too, is very large.

I fear that they may be spoiled by the Arab underlings.
_7th August, 1867._--Some of my people went down to Karambo and were detained by the chief, who said "I won't let you English go away and leave me in trouble with these Arabs." A slave had been given in charge to a man here and escaped, the Arabs hereupon went to Karambo and demanded payment from the chief there; he offered clothing, but they refused it, and would have a man; he then offered a man, but this man having two children they demanded all three.

They bully as much as they please by their fire-arms.