A few heavy night showers closed the rainy season.
_23rd--24th May, 1866._--I took some Lunar observations.
_25th May, 1866._--Matumora is not Ndonde.

A chief to the south-west of this owns that name and belongs to the Matumbwe tribe.
_26th May, 1866._--I sent Musa westwards to buy food, and he returned on the evening of 27th without success; he found an Arab slave-dealer waiting in the path, who had bought up all the provisions.

About 11 P.M.we saw two men pass our door with two women in a chain; one man carried fire in front, the one behind, a musket.

Matumora admits that his people sell each other.
_27th May, 1866._--The havildar and Abraham came up.

Havildar says that all I said in my note was true, and when it was read to the sepoys they bewailed their folly, he adds that if they were all sent away disgraced, no one would be to blame but themselves.