Baniayamwezi and Yukonongo people here.
_31st January, 1872._--Through scraggy bush, then open forest with short grass, over a broad rill and on good path to village Mwaro; chief Kamirambo.
_1st February, 1872._--We met a caravan of Syde bin Habib's people yesterday who reported that Mirambo has offered to repay all the goods he has robbed the Arabs of, all the ivory, powder, blood, &c., but his offer was rejected.

The country all around is devastated, and Arab force is at Simba's.

Mr.Stanley's man Shaw is dead.

There is very great mortality by small-pox amongst the Arabs and at the coast.

We went over flat upland forest, open and bushy, then down a deep descent and along N.E.to a large tree at a deserted stockade.
_2nd February, 1872._--Away over ridges of cultivation and elephant's footsteps.