First of all they breakfast, then an hour afterwards they are sitting eating the pocketfuls of corn maize they have stolen and brought for the purpose, whilst I have to go ahead, otherwise we may be misled into a zigzag course to see Ali's friends; and if I remain behind to keep the sepoys on the move, it deprives me of all the pleasure of travelling.

We have not averaged four miles a day in a straight line, yet the animals have often been kept in the sun for eight hours at a stretch.

When we get up at 4 A.M.we cannot get under weigh before 8 o'clock.

Sepoys are a mistake.
_7th May, 1866._--We are now opposite a mountain called Nabungala, which resembles from the north-east an elephant lying down.

Another camel, a very good one, died on the way: its shiverings and convulsions are not at all like what we observed in horses and oxen killed by tsetse, but such may lie the cause, however.