The fact of the matter is that Mohamad, by not telling me of the superabundance of water in the country of the Marungu, which occurs every year, caused me to lose five months.

He knew that we should be detained here, but he was so eager to get out of his state of durance with Casembe that he hastened my departure by asserting that we should be at Ujiji in one month.

I regret this deception, but it is not to be wondered at, and in a Mohamadan and in a Christian too it is thought clever.

Were my goods not nearly done I would go, and risk the displeasure of Casembe for the chance of discovering the Lake Bemba.

I thought once of buying from Mohamad Bogharib, but am afraid that his stock may be getting low too: I fear that I must give up this Lake for the present.
_12th April, 1868._--I think of starting to-morrow for Bangweolo, even if Casembe refuses a passage beyond him: we shall be better there than we are here, for everything at Kabwabwata is scarce and dear.