Mponda's.

A slave gang.
Wikatani discovers his relatives and remains.
_28th July, 1866._--We proposed to start to-day, but Mataka said that he was not ready yet: the flour had to be ground, and he had given us no meat.

He had sent plenty of cooked food almost every day.

He asked if we would slaughter the ox he would give here, or take it on; we preferred to kill it at once.

He came on the 28th with a good lot of flour for us, and men to guide us to Nyassa, telling us that this was Moembe, and his district extended all the way to the Lake: he would not send us to Losewa, as that place had lately been plundered and burned.
In general the chiefs have shown an anxiety to promote our safety.