_( 5th December.)_ They pair now.

The kite came sooner than the swallows; I saw the first at Bangweolo on the 20th July, 1868.
_1st November, 1868._--At Kabwabwata; we are waiting till Syde comes up that we may help him.

He has an enormous number of tusks and bars of copper, sufficient it seems for all his people to take forward, going and returning three times over.

He has large canoes on the Lake, and will help us in return.
_2nd November, 1868._--News came yesterday from Mpweto's that twenty-one slaves had run away from Syde bin Habib at one time: they were Rua people, and out of the chains, as they were considered safe when fairly over the Lualaba, but they showed their love of liberty on the first opportunity.

Mpweto is suspected to have harboured them, or helped them over the river; this will probably lead to Syde attacking him, as he has done to so many chiefs in Rua.