All the Arabs flee from me, the English name being in their minds inseparably connected with recapturing slavers: they cannot conceive that I have any other object in view; they cannot read Seyed Majid's letter.
_21st August, 1866._--Started for the Loangwa, on the east side of the Lake; hilly all the way, about seven miles.

This river may be twenty yards wide near its confluence; the Misinje is double that: each has accumulated a promontory of deposit and enters the Lake near its apex.
We got a house from a Waiyau man on a bank about forty feet above the level of Nyassa, but I could not sleep for the manoeuvres of a crowd of the minute ants which infested it.

They chirrup distinctly; they would not allow the men to sleep either, though all were pretty tired by the rough road up.
_22nd August, 1866._--We removed to the south side of the Loangwa, where there are none of these little pests.
_23rd August, 1866._--Proposed to the Waiyau headman to send a canoe over to call Jumbe, as I did not believe in the assertions of the half-caste Arab here that he had sent for his.

All the Waiyau had helped me, and why not he?
He was pleased with this, but advised waiting till a man sent to Losewa should return.
_24th August, 1866._--A leopard took a dog out of a house next to ours; he had bitten a man before, but not mortally.

_29th August, 1866._--News come that the two dhows have come over to Losewa (Losefa).