He was three days north-east of Nusseewa, and on the Arab road back to the usual crossing-place of the Rovuma, when he was murdered.

The murderers were seized by one of the chiefs, sent to Zanzibar, and executed.

He is said to have kept his discoveries to himself, with the intention of publishing in Europe the whole at once, in a splendid book of travels.
The chief of the village near the confluence of the Lake and River Shire, an old man, called Mosauka, hearing that we were sitting under a tree, came and kindly invited us to his village.

He took us to a magnificent banyan-tree, of which he seemed proud.

The roots had been trained down to the ground into the form of a gigantic arm-chair, without the seat.
Four of us slept in the space betwixt its arms.