Rounded a point of land, and made for Kasanga with a storm in our teeth; fourteen hours in all.

We were received by a young Arab Muscat, who dined us sumptuously at noon: there are seventeen islets in the Kasanga group.
_8th March, 1869._--On Kasanga islet.

Cochin-China fowls[1] and Muscovy ducks appear, and plenty of a small milkless breed of goats.

Tanganyika has many deep bays running in four or five miles; they are choked up with aquatic vegetation, through which canoes can scarcely be propelled.
When the bay has a small rivulet at its head, the water in the bay is decidedly brackish, though the rivulet be fresh, it made the Zanzibar people remark on the Lake water, "It is like that we get near the sea-shore--a little salt;" but as soon as we get out of the shut-in bay or lagoon into the Lake proper the water is quite sweet, and shows that a current flows through the middle of the Lake lengthways.
Patience was never more needed than now: I am near Ujiji, but the slaves who paddle are tired, and no wonder; they keep up a roaring song all through their work, night and day.

I expect to get medicine, food, and milk at Ujiji, but dawdle and do nothing.