In this case Mpweto will have no sympathy; he is so wanting in the spirit of friendliness to others.
_3rd November, 1868._--Sent off men to hasten Syde onwards.

We start in two or three days.
The oldest map known to be in existence is the map of the Ethiopian Goldmines, dating from the time of Sethos I., the father of Rameses II., long enough before the time of the bronze tablet of Aristagoras, on which was inscribed the circuit of the whole earth, and all the sea and all rivers.

(Tylor, p.

90, quoted from Birch's _Archaeologia_, vol.xxxiv.p.

382.) Sesostris was the first to distribute his maps.
_8th November, 1868._--Syde bin Habib is said to have amassed 150 frasilahs of ivory = 5250 lbs., and 300 frasilahs of copper = 10,500 lbs.