One stole fifteen pounds of fine powder, another seven, another left six table-cloths out of about twenty-four; another called out to a man to bring a fish, and he would buy it with beads, the beads being stolen, and Musa knew it all and connived at it; but it was terror that drove him away at last.
With our goods in canoes we went round the bottom of the heel of Nyassa, slept among reeds, and next morning (27th) landed at Msangwa, which is nearly opposite Kimsusa's, or Katosa's, as the Makololo called him.

A man had been taken off by a crocodile last night; he had been drinking beer, and went down to the water to cool himself, where he lay down, and the brute seized him.

The water was very muddy, being stirred up by an east wind, which lashed the waves into our canoes, and wetted our things.

The loud wail of the women is very painful to hear; it sounds so dolefully.
_28th, September, 1866._--We reached Kinisusa's, below Mount Mulundini, of Kirk's range.[26] The chief was absent, but he was sent for immediately: his town has much increased since I saw it last.
_29th September, 1866._--Another Arab passed last night, with the tale that his slaves had all been taken from him by the Mazitu.

It is more respectable to be robbed by them than by the Manganja, who are much despised and counted nobodies.