They asked permission to send a party with me for goods to Ujiji; this will increase our numbers, and perhaps safety too, among the justly irritated people between this and Bambarre.
All are enjoined to help me, and of course I must do the same to them.
It is colder here than at Nyangwe.

Kasongo is off guiding an ivory or slaving party, and doing what business he can on his own account; he has four guns, and will be the first to maraud on his own account.
_30th July, 1871._--They send thirty tusks to Ujiji, and seventeen Manyuema volunteers to carry thither and back: these are the very first who in modern times have ventured fifty miles from the place of their birth.

I came only three miles to a ridge overlooking the River Shokoye, and slept at village on a hill beyond it.
_31st July, 1871._--Passed through the defile between Mount Kimazi and Mount Kijila.

Below the cave with stalactite pillar in its door a fine echo answers those who feel inclined to shout to it.

Come to Mangala's numerous villages, and two slaves being ill, rest on Wednesday.
_1st August, 1871._--A large market assembles close to us.
_2nd August, 1871._--Left Mangala's, and came through a great many villages all deserted on our approach on account of the vengeance taken by Dugumbe's party for the murder of some of their people.