Scarcely a day has passed without rain and thunder since we left Tanganyika Across a flat forest again, meeting a caravan for Ujiji.

The grass is three feet high, and in seed.

Reach Chikuru, a stockaded village, with dura plantations around it and pools of rain-water.
_12th February, 1872._--Rest.
_13th February, 1872._--Leave Chikuru, and wade across an open flat with much standing-water.

They plant rice on the wet land round the villages.
Our path lies through an open forest, where many trees are killed for the sake of the bark, which is used as cloth, and for roofing and beds.
Mr.Stanley has severe fever.
_14th February, 1872._--Across the same flat open forest, with scraggy trees and grass three feet long in tufts.

Came to a Boma.