The chief gave me a goat, and Mohamad another, but in coming through the forest on the neck of the mountain the men lost three, and have to go back for them, and return to-morrow.

Simon and Ibram were bundled out of the camp, and impudently followed me: when they came up, I told them to be off.
_17th February, 1871._--Waiting at a village on the Western slope for the men to come up with the goats, if they have gone back to the camp.
Mohamad would not allow the deserters to remain among his people, nor would I.It would only be to imbue the minds of my men with their want of respect for all English, and total disregard of honesty and honour: they came after me with inimitable effrontery, believing that though I said I would not take them, they were so valuable, I was only saying what I knew to be false.

The goats were brought by a Manyuema man, who found one fallen into a pitfall and dead; he ate it, and brought one of his own in lieu of it.

I gave him ten strings of beads, and he presented a fowl in token of goodwill.
_18th February, 1871._--Went on to a village on the Lulwa, and on the 19th reached Moenemgoi, who dissuaded me so earnestly against going to Moenekurumbo for the cause of Molembalemba that I agreed not to venture.
_20th February, 1871._--To the ford with only one canoe now, as two men of Katomba were swept away in the other, and drowned.

They would not sell the remaining canoe, so I go N.W.on foot to Moene Lualaba, where fine large canoes are abundant.