It is very hot at even 10 A.M., and 21/2 or 3 hours tires the strongest--carriers especially so: during the rains five hours would not have fatigued so much as three do now.

We are now on the same level as Tanganyika.

The dense mass of black smoke rising from the burning grass and reeds on the Lobumba, or Robumba, obscures the sun, and very sensibly lowers the temperature of the sultriest day; it looks like the smoke in Martin's pictures.

The Manyuema arrows here are very small, and made of strong grass stalks, but poisoned, the large ones, for elephants and buffaloes, are poisoned also.
_31st August, 1869._--Course N.W.among Palmyras and Hyphene Palms, and many villages swarming with people.

Crossed Kibila, a hot fountain about 120 deg., to sleep at Kolokolo River, five yards wide, and knee deep: midway we passed the River Kanzazala.