Game is said to be abundant, but we saw none, save an occasional diver springing away from the path.

Some streams ran to the north-west to the Lismyando, which flows N.for the Rovuma; others to the south-east for the Loendi.
_10th and 11th July, 1866._--Nothing to interest but the same weary trudge: our food so scarce that we can only give a handful or half a pound of grain to each person per day.

The Masuko fruit is formed, but not ripe till rains begin; very few birds are seen or heard, though there is both food and water in the many grain-bearing grasses and running streams, which we cross at the junction of every two ridges.
A dead body lay in a hut by the wayside; the poor thing had begun to make a garden by the stream, probably in hopes of living long enough (two months or so) on wild fruits to reap a crop of maize.
_12th July, 1866._--A drizzling mist set in during the night and continued this morning, we set off in the dark, however, leaving our last food for the havildar and sepoys who had not yet come up.

The streams are now of good size.

An Arab brandy bottle was lying broken in one village called Msapa.