I asked if he had ever seen anyone like me, and he said, "Never." A Babisa traveller asked me why I had come so far; I said I wished to make the country and people better known to the rest of the world, that we were all children of one Father, and I was anxious that we should know each other better, and that friendly visits should be made in safety.

I told him what the Queen had done to encourage the growth of cotton on the Zambezi, and how we had been thwarted by slave-traders and their abettors: they were pleased with this.

When asked I showed them my note-book, watch, compass, burning-glass, and was loudly drummed home.
I showed them the Bible, and told them a little of its contents.

I shall require a few days more at Bangweolo than I at first intended.
The moon being in its last stage of waning I cannot observe till it is of some size.
_19th July, 1868._--Went down to Masantu's village, which is on the shore of the Lake, and by a spring called Chipoka, which comes out of a mass of disintegrated granite.

It is seldom that we see a spring welling out beneath a rock: they are covered by oozing sponges, if indeed they exist.