If successful, we shall get Banyamwezi pagazi in numbers.
Mirambo is reported to have sent 100 tusks and 100 slaves towards the coast to buy gunpowder.

If true, the war is still far from being finished; but falsehood is fashionable.
_26th June, 1872._--Went over to Kwikuru and engaged Mohamad bin Seyde to speak to Nkasiwa for pagazi; he wishes to go himself.

The people sent by Mirambo to buy gunpowder in Ugogo came to Kitambi, he reported the matter to Nkasiwa that they had come, and gave them pombe.

When Lewale heard it, he said, "Why did Kitambi not kill them; he is a partaker in Mirambo's guilt ?" A large gathering yesterday at M'futu to make an assault on the last stockade in hostility.
[A few notes in another pocket-book are placed under this date.

Thus:--] _24th June, 1872._--A continuous covering of forests is a sign of a virgin country.