Wood, water, and grass, the requisites of a camp abound, and the Manyuema bring large supplies of food every day; forty large baskets of maize for a goat; fowls and bananas and nyumbo very cheap.
_25th March, 1870._--Iron bracelets are the common medium of exchange, and coarse beads and cowries: for a copper bracelet three large fowls are given, and three and a half baskets of maize; one basket three feet high is a woman's load, and they are very strong.
The Wachiogone are a scattered tribe among the Maarabo or Suaheli, but they retain their distinct identity as a people.
The Mamba fish has breasts with milk, and utters a cry; its flesh is very white, it is not the crocodile which goes by the same name, but is probably the Dugong or Peixe Mulher of the Portuguese( ?).

Full-grown leeches come on the surface in this wet country.
Some of Katomba's men returned with forty-three tusks.

An animal with short horns and of a reddish colour is in the north; it is not known to the Arabs( ?).
Joseph, an Arab from Oman, says that the Simoom is worse in Sham (Yemen ?) than in Oman: it blows for three or four hours.

Butter eaten largely is the remedy against its ill effects, and this is also smeared on the body: in Oman a wetted cloth is put over the head, body, and legs, while this wind blows.
_1st May, 1870._--An elephant was killed which had three tusks; all of good size.[7] Rains continued; and mud and mire from the clayey soil of Manyuema were too awful to be attempted.
_24th May, 1870._--I sent to Bambarre for the cloth and beads I left there.

A party of Thani's people came south and said that they had killed forty Manyuema, and lost four of theirown number; nine villages were burned, and all this about a single string of beads which a man tried to steal! _June, 1870._--Mohamad bin Nassur and Akila's men brought 116 tusks from the north, where the people are said to be all good and obliging: Akila's chief man had a large deep ulcer on the foot from the mud.