The soil is formed of the debris of granitic rocks; rough and stony, but everywhere fertile.

One can rarely get a bare spot to sit down and rest.
_24th February, 1871._--To a village near Lolande River.

Then across the Loengadye, sleeping on the bank of the Luha, and so to Mamohela, where we were welcomed by all the Arabs, and I got a letter from Dr.
Kirk and another from the Sultan, and from Mohamad bin Nassib who was going to Karagwe: all anxious to be kind.

Katomba gave flour, nuts, fowls, and goat.

A new way is opened to Kasongo's, much shorter than that I followed.