It has been so rainy I could have done little though I had had people.
_22nd January, 1871._--A party is reported to be on the way hither.

This is likely enough, but reports are so often false that doubts arise.
Mohamad says he will give men when the party of Hassani comes, or when Dugumbe arrives.
_24th January, 1871._--Mohamad mentioned this morning that Moene-mokaia, and Moeneghera his brother, brought about thirty slaves from Katanga to Ujiji, affected with swelled thyroid glands or "_Goitre_," and that drinking the water of Tanganyika proved a perfect cure to all in a very few days.

Sometimes the swelling went down in two days after they began to use the water, in their ordinary way of cooking, washing, and drinking: possibly some ingredient of the hot fountain that flows into it affects the cure, for the people on the Lofubu, in Nsama's country, had the swelling.

The water in bays is decidedly brackish, while the body of Tanganyika is quite fresh.
The odour of putrid elephant's meat in a house kills parrots: the Manyuema keep it till quite rotten, but know its fatal effects on their favourite birds.
_27th January, 1871._--Safari or caravan reported to be near, and my men and goods at Ujiji.
_28th January, 1871._--A safari, under Hassani and Ebed, arrived with news of great mortality by cholera (_Towny_), at Zanzibar, and my "brother," whom I conjecture to be Dr.Kirk, has fallen.

The men I wrote for have come to Ujiji, but did not know my whereabouts; when told by Katomba's men they will come here, and bring my much longed for letters and goods.