He offers to guide me thither, going first to Merere's, where Amran Masudi has now the upper hand, and Merere offers to pay all the losses he has caused to Arabs and others.

Two letters were sent by the Portuguese to the East Coast, one is in Amran's hands.
Hamees Wodin Tagh is alive and well.

These Portuguese went nowhere from Katanga, so that they have not touched the sources of the Nile, for which I am thankful.
Tipo Tipo has made friends with Merosi, the Monyamweze headman at Katanga, by marrying his daughter, and has formed the plan of assaulting Casembe in conjunction with him because Casembe put six of Tipo Tipo's men to death.

He will now be digging gold at Katanga till this man returns with gunpowder.
[Many busy calculations are met with here which are too involved to be given in detail.

At one point we see a rough conjecture as to the length of the road through Fipa.] On looking at the projected route by Merere's I seethat it will be a saving of a large angle into Fipa = 350 into Basango country S.S.W.