The name of his very numerous people is Bawungu, country Urungu: his other names are Ironga, Mohamu.
The Basango, on the other hand, consider their chief as a deity, and fear to say aught wrong, lest he should hear them: they fear both before him and when out of sight.
The father of Merere never drank pombe or beer, and assigned as a reason that a great man who had charge of people's lives should never become intoxicated so as to do evil.

Bange he never smoked, but in council smelled at a bunch of it, in order to make his people believe that it had a great effect on him.

Merere drinks pombe freely, but never uses bange: he alone kills sheep; he is a lover of mutton and beef, but neither goats nor fowls are touched by him.
_9th November, 1870._--I sent to Lohombo for dura, and planted some Nyumbo.

I long excessively to be away and finish my work by the two Lacustrine rivers, Lualaba of Webb and Young, but wait only for Syde and Dugumbe, who may have letters, and as I do not intend to return hither, but go through Karagwe homewards, I should miss them altogether.

I groan and am in bitterness at the delay, but thus it is: I pray for help to do what is right, but sorely am I perplexed, and grieved and mourn: I cannot give up making a complete work of the exploration.
_10th November, 1870._--A party of Katomba's men arrived on their way to Ujiji for carriers, they report that a foray was made S.W.of Mamohela to recover four guns, which were captured from Katomba; three were recovered, and ten of the Arab party slain.