"The English come the second time!" "The second time--the second time--the country spoiled! Why not wait at the Kalungosi?
Let him return thither." "Come from Mpamari too, and from the Bagaraganza or Banyamwezi!!" "The second time--the second time!" Then all the adjacent villagers were called in to settle this serious affair.

I look up to that higher Power to influence their minds as He has often done before.

I persuaded them to refer the matter to Casembe himself by sending a man with one of mine up to the town.

They would not consent to go on to the Chungu, as the old cropped-eared man would have been obliged to come back the distance again, he having been on the way to the Kalungosi as a sentinel of the ford.

Casembe is reasonable and fair, but his people are neither, and will do anything to mulct either strangers or their own countrymen.
_30th April, 1868._--The cold of winter has begun, and dew is deposited in great quantities, but all the streams are very high in flood, though the rains have ceased here some time.
_1st May, 1868._--At the Mandapala River.