3 P.M.Fair, after rain all the morning--on to the Rivulet Kamalopa, which runs to Kamolozzi and into Kapopozi.
_8th January, 1873._--Detained by heavy continuous rains in the village Moenje.

We are near Lake Bangweolo and in a damp region.

Got off in the afternoon in a drizzle; crossed a rill six feet wide, but now very deep, and with large running sponges on each side; it is called the Kamalopa, then one hour beyond came to a sponge, and a sluggish rivulet 100 yards broad with broad sponges on either bank waist deep, and many leeches.
Came on through flat forest as usual S.W.and S.
[We may here call attention to the alteration of the face of the country and the prominent notice of "sponges." His men speak of the march from this point as one continual plunge in and out of morass, and through rivers which were only distinguishable from the surrounding waters by their deep currents and the necessity for using canoes.

To a man reduced in strength and chronically affected with dysenteric symptoms ever likely to be aggravated by exposure, the effect may be well conceived! It is probable that had Dr.Livingstone been at the head of a hundred picked Europeans, every man would have been down within the next fortnight.

As it is, we cannot help thinking of his company of followers, who must have been well led and under the most thorough control to endure these marches at all, for nothing cows the African so much as rain.