I was accosted on arriving by, "You must give me five dollars a month for all my time;" this though he had brought nothing--the buffaloes all died--and did nothing but receive stolen goods.

I tried to make use of him to go a mile every second day for milk, but he shammed sickness so often on that day I had to get another to go; then he made a regular practice of coming into my house, watching what my two attendants were doing, and going about the village with distorted statements against them.
I clothed him, but he tried to make bad blood between the respectable Arab who supplied me with milk and myself, telling him that I abused him, and then he would come back, saying that he abused me! I can account for his conduct only by attributing it to that which we call ill-conditioned: I had to expel him from the house.
I repaired a house to keep out the rain, and on the _23rd_ moved into it.

I gave our Kasanga host a cloth and blanket; he is ill of pneumonia of both lungs.
_28th March, 1869._--Flannel to the skin and tea very beneficial in the cure of my disease; my cough has ceased, and I walk half a mile.

I am writing letters for home.
_8th April, 1869._--Visited Moene Mokaia, who sent me two fowls and rice; gave him two cloths.

He added a sheep.
_13th April, 1869._--Employed Suleyman to write notes to Governor of Unyembe, Syde bin Salem Burashid, to make inquiries about the theft of my goods, as I meant to apply to Syed Majid, and wished to speak truly about his man Musa bin Salum, the chief depredator.
Wrote also to Thani for boat and crew to go down Tanganyika.
Syde bin Habib refused to allow his men to carry my letters to the coast; as he suspected that I would write about his doings in Rua.
_27th April, 1869._--Syde had three canoes smashed in coming up past Thembwe; the wind and waves drove them on the rocks, and two were totally destroyed: they are heavy unmanageable craft, and at the mercy of any storm if they cannot get into a shut bay, behind the reeds and aquatic vegetation.