Two were swept away and drowned; other two were rescued by men leaping in and saving them, one of whom was my man Susi.

A crocodile bit one person badly, but was struck, and driven off.

Two slaves escaped by night; a woman loosed her husband's yoke from the tree, and got clear off.
_24th December, 1868._--Five sick people detain us to-day; some cannot walk from feebleness and purging brought on by sleeping on the damp ground without clothes.
Syde bin Habib reports a peculiar breed of goats in Rua, remarkably short in the legs, so much so, that they cannot travel far; they give much milk, and become very fat, but the meat is indifferent.

Gold is found at Katanga in the pool of a waterfall only: it probably comes from the rocks above this.

His account of the Lofu, or, as he says, West Lualaba, is identical with that of his cousin, Syde bin Omar; it flows north, but west of Lufira, into the Lake of Kinkonza, so named after the chief.