No observations have been possible through most of this month.
People assert that the new moon will bring drier weather, and the clouds are preparing to change the N.W.lower stratum into S.E., ditto, ditto, and the N.W.will be the upper tier.
A man, ill and unable to come on, was left all night in the rain, without fire.

We sent men back to carry him.

Wet and cold.

We are evidently ascending as we come near the Chambeze.

The N.E.clouds came up this morning to meet the N.W.and thence the S.E.came across as if combating the N.W.So as the new moon comes soon, it may be a real change to drier weather.
4 P.M .-- The man carried in here is very ill; we must carry him to-morrow.
_29th December, 1872._--Our man Chipangawazi died last night and was buried this morning.