The East Lualaba becomes very large, often as much as six or eight miles broad, with many inhabited islands, the people of which, being safe from invasion, are consequently rapacious and dishonest, and their chiefs, Moenge and Nyamakunda, are equally lawless.

A hunter, belonging to Syde, named Kabwebwa, gave much information gleaned during his hunting trips; for instance, the Lufira has nine feeders of large size; and one, the Lekulwe, has also nine feeders; another, the Kisungu, is covered with, "tikatika," by which the people cross it, though it bends under their weight; he also ascribes the origin of the Lufira and the Lualaba West, or Lofu, with the Liambai to one large earthen mound, which he calls "segulo," or an anthill! _25th December, 1868, Christmas Day._--We can buy nothing except the very coarsest food--not a goat or fowl--while Syde, having plenty of copper, can get all the luxuries.

We marched past Mount Katanga, leaving it on our left, to the River Kapeta, and slaughtered a favourite kid to make a Christmas dinner.

A trading-party came up from Ujiji; they said that we were ten camps from Tanganyika.

They gave an erroneous report that a steamer with a boat in tow was on Lake Chowambe--an English one, too, with plenty of cloth and beads on board.