and 10 deg.

south latitude, or at least 400 or 500 miles south of the south end of Speke's Lake, which he considered to be the sources of the Nile.

Tanganyika is declared to send its water through north into Lake Chowambe or Baker's Lake; if this does not prove false, then Tanganyika is an expansion of the Nile, and so is Lake Chowambe; the two Lakes being connected by the River Loanda.
Unfortunately the people on the east side of the Loanda are constantly at war with the people on the west of it, or those of Rusisi.

The Arabs have been talking of opening up a path through to Chowambe, where much ivory is reported; I hope that the Most High may give me a way there.
_11th April, 1868._--I had a long oration from Mohamad yesterday against going off for Bemba to-morrow.

His great argument is the extortionate way of Casembe, who would demand cloth, and say that in pretending to go to Ujiji I had told him lies: he adds to this argument that this is the last month of the rains; the Masika has begun, and our way north will soon be open.