Thanks to the Great Father in Heaven.
_24th February, 1869._--We had remarkably little rain these two months.
_25th February, 1869._--I extracted twenty _Funyes_, an insect like a maggot, whose eggs had been inserted on my having been put into an old house infested by them; as they enlarge they stir about and impart a stinging sensation; if disturbed, the head is drawn in a little.

When a poultice is put on they seem obliged to come out possibly from want of air: they can be pressed out, but the large pimple in which they live is painful; they were chiefly in my limbs.
_26th February, 1869._--Embark, and sleep at Katonga after seven hours' paddling.
_27th February, 1869._--Went 1-3/4 hour to Bondo or Thembwe to buy food.
Shore very rough, like shores near Caprera, but here all is covered with vegetation.

We were to cross to Kabogo, a large mass of mountains on the eastern side, but the wind was too high.
_28th February, 1869._--Syde sent food back to his slaves.
_2nd March, 1869._--Waves still high, so we got off only on _3rd_ at 1h.
30m.

A.M.

6-1/2 hours, and came to M.Bogharib, who cooked bountifully.
_6th March, 1869._--5 P.M.Off to Toloka Bay--three hours; left at 6 A.M., and came, in four hours, to Uguha, which is on the west side of Tanganyika.
_7th March, 1869._--Left at 6 P.M., and went on till two canoes ran on rocks in the way to Kasanga islet.