We cross a rivulet 15 yards wide going north, and at another of 3 yards came to a halt; all wet and uncomfortable.
The people pick up many mushrooms and manendinga roots, like turnips.
There are buffaloes near us in great numbers.
_13th January, 1872._--Fine morning.

Went through an undulating hilly country clothed with upland trees for three hours, then breakfast in an open glade, with bottom of rocks of brown haematite, and a hole with rain-water in it.

We are over 1000 feet higher than Tanganyika.

It became cloudy, and we finished our march in a pouring rain, at a rivulet thickly clad with aquatic trees on banks.

Course E.S.E.
_14th January, 1872._--Another fine morning, but miserably wet afternoon.