About north-west.
Simba sent a handsome present of food, a goat, eggs, and a fowl, beans, split rice, dura, and sesame.

I gave him three dotis of superior cloth.
_21st September, 1872._--Rest here, as the complaint does not yield to medicine or time; but I begin to eat now, which is a favourable symptom.
Under a lofty tree at Simba's, a kite, the common brown one, had two pure white eggs in its nest, larger than a fowl's, and very spherical.
The Banyamwesi women are in general very coarse, not a beautiful woman amongst them, as is so common among the Batusi; squat, thick-set figures, and features too; a race of pagazi.

On coming inland from sea-coast, the tradition says, they cut the end of a cone shell, so as to make it a little of the half-moon shape; this is their chief ornament.

They are generally respectful in deportment, but not very generous; they have learned the Arab adage, "Nothing for nothing," and are keen slave-traders.

The gingerbread palm of Speke is the _Hyphene_; the Borassus has a large seed, very like the Coco-de-mer of the Seychelle Islands, in being double, but it is very small compared to it.
_22nd September, 1872._--Preparing food, and one man pretends inability to walk; send for some pagazi to carry loads of those who carry him.
Simba sends copious libations of pombe.
_23rd September, 1872._--The pagazi, after demanding enormous pay, walked off.