All the water flows northwards, but no reliance can be placed on the statements.

Kiombo is said to be chief of Rua country.
Another man asserts that Tanganyika flows northwards and forms a large water beyond Uganda, but no dependence can be placed on the statements of these half Arabs; they pay no attention to anything but ivory and food.
_25th August, 1867._--Nsama requested the Arabs to give back his son who was captured; some difficulty was made about this by his captor, but Hamees succeeded in getting him and about nine others, and they are sent off to-day.

We wait only for the people, who are scattered about the country.

Hamees presented cakes, flour, a fowl and leg of goat, with a piece of eland meat: this animal goes by the same name here as at Kolobeng--"Pofu."[56] A fig-tree here has large knobs on the bark, like some species of acacia; and another looks like the Malolo of the Zambesi magnified.

A yellow wood gives an odour like incense when burned.
A large spider makes a nest inside the huts.