The colours show the shapes of the different plantations in the great hollow drained by the Kunda.

After crossing the fast flowing Kahembai, which flows into the Kunda, and it into Lualaba, we rose on to another intersecting ridge, having a great many villages burned by Matereka or Salem Mokadam's people, since we passed them in our course N.W.They had slept on the ridge after we saw them, and next morning, in sheer wantonness, fired their lodgings,--their slaves had evidently carried the fire along from their lodgings, and set fire to houses of villages in their route as a sort of horrid Moslem Nigger joke; it was done only because they could do it without danger of punishment: it was such fun to make the Mashense, as they call all natives, houseless.

Men are worse than beasts of prey, if indeed it is lawful to call Zanzibar slaves men.
It is monstrous injustice to compare free Africans living under their own chiefs and laws, and cultivating their own free lands, with what slaves afterwards become at Zanzibar and elsewhere.
_26th July, 1871._--Came up out of the last valley of denudation--that drained by Kahembai, and then along a level land with open forest.

Four men passed us in hot haste to announce the death of a woman at their village to her relations living at another.

I heard of several deaths lately of dysentery.