Almost every step was in pain, the appetite failed, and a little bit of meat caused violent diarrhoea, whilst the mind, sorely depressed, reacted on the body.

All the traders were returning successful: I alone had failed and experienced worry, thwarting, baffling, when almost in sight of the end towards which I strained.
_3rd October, 1871._--I read the whole Bible through four times whilst I was in Manyuema.
_8th October, 1871._--The road covered with angular fragments of quartz was very sore to my feet, which are crammed into ill-made French shoes.
How the bare feet of the men and women stood out, I don't know; it was hard enough on mine though protected by the shoes.

We marched in the afternoons where water at this season was scarce.

The dust of the march caused ophthalmia, like that which afflicted Speke: this was my first touch of it in Africa.

We now came to the Lobumba River, which flows into Tanganyika, and then to the village Loanda and sent to Kasanga, the Guha chief, for canoes.