Milk not to be had, as the cows had not calved, but a present of Assam tea from Mr.Black, the Inspector of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's affairs, had come from Calcutta, besides my own coffee and a little sugar.

I bought butter; two large pots are sold for two fathoms of blue calico, and four-year-old flour, with which we made bread.

I found great benefit from the tea and coffee, and still more from flannel to the skin.
_15th March, 1869._--Took account of all the goods left by the plunderer; sixty-two out of eighty pieces of cloth (each of twenty-four yards) were stolen, and most of my best beads.

The road to Unyembe[3] is blocked up by a Mazitu or Watuta war, so I must wait till the Governor there gets an opportunity to send them.

The Musa sent with the buffaloes is a genuine specimen of the ill-conditioned, English-hating Arab.