I ask for soap, coffee, sugar, candles, sardines, French preserved meats, a cheese in tin, Nautical Almanac for 1869 and 1870, shoes (two or four pairs), ruled paper, pencils, sealing-wax, ink, powder, flannel-serge, 12 frasila beads, 6 of Talaka; added 3 F.pale red, 3 W.white.
_3rd July, 1868._--The summary of the sources which I have resolved to report as flowing into the central line of drainage formed by the Chambeze, Luapula, and Lualaba are thirteen in all, and each is larger than the Isis at Oxford, or Avon at Hamilton.

Five flow into the eastern line of drainage going through Tanganyika, and five more into the western line of drainage or Lufira, twenty-three or more in all.
The Lualaba and the Lufira unite in the Lake of the chief Kinkonza.
_5th July, 1868._--I borrowed some paper from Mohamad Bogharib to write home by some Arabs going to the coast.

I will announce my discovery to Lord Clarendon; but I reserve the parts of the Lualaba and Tanganyika for future confirmation.

I have no doubts on the subject, for I receive the reports of natives of intelligence at first hand, and they have no motive for deceiving me.

The best maps are formed from the same sort of reports at third or fourth hand.