We came up the Lopopussi three hours yesterday, after spending two hours in going down to examine the canoes.
We hear that Sayde bin Ali is returning from Katanga with much ivory.
_19th January, 1873._--After prayers we went on to a fine village, and on from it to the Mononse, which, though only ten feet of deep stream flowing S., had some 400 yards of most fatiguing, plunging, deep sponge, which lay in a mass of dark-coloured rushes, that looked as if burnt off: many leeches plagued us.

We were now two hours out.

We went on two miles to another sponge and village, but went round its head dryshod, then two hours more to sponge Lovu.

Flat forest as usual.
_20th January, 1873._--Tried to observe lunars in vain; clouded over all, thick and muggy.

Came on disappointed and along the Lovu 1-1/2 mile.