The war is not so near an end as many hoped.
* * * * * [Mtesa's people on their way back to Uganda were stuck fast at Unyanyembe the whole of this time: it does not appear at all who the missionary was to whom he refers.] * * * * * Lewale sends off the Baganda in a great hurry, after detaining them for six months or more till the war ended, and he now gets pagazi of Banyamwezi for them.

This haste (though war is not ended) is probably because Lewale has heard of a missionary through me.
Mirambo fires now from inside the stockade alone.
_19th July, 1872._--Visited Salim bin Seff, and was very hospitably entertained.

He was disappointed that I could not eat largely.

They live very comfortably: grow wheat, whilst flour and fruits grace their board.
Salim says that goat's flesh at Zanzibar is better than beef, but here beef is better than goat's flesh.

He is a stout, jolly fellow.
_20th July, 1872._--High cold winds prevail.