I visited Lewale and Nkasiwa, putting a blister on the latter, for paralytic arm, to please him.

Lewale says that a general flight from the war has taken place.

The excuse is hunger.
He confirms the great damage done by a cyclone at Zanzibar to shipping, houses, cocoa-nut palms, mango-trees, and clove-trees, also houses and dhows, five days after Burghash returned.

Sofeu volunteers to go with us, because Mohamad Bogharib never gave him anything, and Bwana Mohinna has asked him to go with him.

I have accepted his offer, and will explain to Mohamad, when I see him, that this is what he promised me in the way of giving men, but never performed.
_27th July, 1872._--At dawn a loud rumbling in the east as if of thunder, possibly a slight earthquake; no thunder-clouds visible.
Bin Nassib came last night and visited me before going home to his own house; a tall, brown, polite Arab.