We leave on the 25th, east bank of Moisi River, and cross the Luongo on the 28th, the Lofubu on the 1st October, and the Kalongosi on the 7th.
[Dr.Livingstone seems to have been unable to find opportunity to make daily entries at this period.

All was turmoil and panic, and his life appears to have been in imminent danger.

Briefly we see that on his way back from the Lake he found that his Arab associates of the last few months had taken up Casembe's cause against the devastating hordes of Mazitu, who had swept down on these parts, and had repulsed them.
But now a fresh complication arose! Casembe and Chikumbi became alarmed lest the Arabs, feeling their own power, should turn upon them and possess the whole country, so they joined forces and stormed Kombokombo, one of the leading Arabs, and with what success we shall see.

It is a fair specimen of the unaccountable complications which dog the steps of the traveller, where war is afoot, and render life a misery.

He writes as follows on the 5th October:--] I was detained in the Imbozhwa country much longer than I relished.
The inroad of the Mazitu, of which Casembe had just heard when we reached the Mofwe, was the first cause of delay: he had at once sent off men to verify the report, and requested me to remain till his messengers should return.