We reached Katenga's, about five miles off.

There are many villages, and people passed us carrying loads of provisions, and cassava, from the chitoka or market.
_24th March, 1871._--Great rain in the night and morning, and sickness of the men prevented our march.
_25th March, 1871._--Went to Mazimwe, 7-1/2 miles off.
_26th March, 1871._--Went four miles and crossed the Kabwimaji; then a mile beyond Kahembai, which flows into the Kunda, and it into the Lualaba; the country is open, and low hills appear in the north.

We met a party from the traders at Kasenga, chiefly Matereka's people under Salem and Syde bin Sultan; they had eighty-two captives, and say they fought ten days to secure them and two of the Malongwana, and two of the Banyamwezi.

They had about twenty tusks, and carried one of their men who broke his leg in fighting; we shall be safe only when past the bloodshed and murder.
_27th March, 1871._--We went along a ridge of land overhanging a fine valley of denudation, with well-cultivated hills in the distance (N.), where Hassani's feat of bloodshed was performed.

There are many villages on the ridge, some rather tumbledown ones, which always indicate some misrule.