The sorghum or dura is sown thickly, and when about a foot high--if the owner has been able to prepare the soil elsewhere--it is transplanted, a portion of the leaves being cut off to prevent too great evaporation and the death of the plant.
_17th January, 1868._--The Wanyamwesi and people of Garaganza say that we have thirteen days' march from this to the Tanganyika Lake.

It is often muddy, and many rivulets are to be crossed.
Mohamad is naturally anxious to stay a little while with his son, for it is a wet season, and the mud is disagreeable to travel over: it is said to be worse near Ujiji: he cooks small delicacies for me with the little he has, and tries to make me comfortable.

Vinegar is made from bananas, and oil from ground-nuts.

I am anxious to be off, but chiefly to get news.
I find that many Unyamwesi people are waiting here, on account of the great quantity of rainwater in front: it would be difficult, they say, to get canoes on Tanganyika, as the waves are now large.
_24th January, 1868._--Two of Mohamad Bogharib's people came from Casembe's to trade here, and a body of Syde bin Habib's people also from Garaganza, near Kaze, they report the flooded lands on this side of Lake Tanganyika as waist and chest deep.

Bin Habib, being at Katanga, will not stir till the rains are over, and I fear we are storm-stayed till then too.