I must feel resigned to the loss by the Divine Will, but still I regret and mourn.
Wearisome waiting, this; and yet the men cannot be here before the middle or end of this month.

I have been sorely let and hindered in this journey, but it may have been all for the best.

I will trust in Him to whom I commit my way.
_5th July, 1872._--Weary! weary! _7th July, 1872._--Waiting wearily here, and hoping that the good and loving Father of all may favour me, and help me to finish my work quickly and well.
Temperature at 6 A.M.61 deg.; feels cold.

Winds blow regularly from the east; if it changes to N.W.brings a thick mantle of cold grey clouds.

A typhoon did great damage at Zanzibar, wrecking ships and destroying cocoa-nuts, carafu, and all fruits: happened five days after Seyed Burghash's return from Mecca.
At the Loangwa of Zumbo we came to a party of hereditary hippopotamus hunters, called Makembwe or Akombwe.