_26th March, 1872._--Rain of Masika chiefly by night. The Masika of 1871 began on 23rd of March, and ended 30th of April. _27th March, 1872._--Reading. Very heavy rains. _28th March, 1872._--Moenyembegu asked for the loan of a "doti." He is starving, and so is the war-party at M'Futu; chaining their slaves together to keep them from running away to get food anywhere. _29th, 30th, 31st March, 1872._--Very rainy weather. Am reading 'Mungo Park's Travels;' they look so truthful. _1st April, 1872._--Read Young's 'Search after Livingstone;' thankful for many kind words about me. He writes like a gentleman. _2nd April, 1872._--Making a sounding-line out of lint left by Mr. Stanley. Whydah birds are now building their nests. The cock-bird brings fine grass seed-stalks off the top of my Tembé. He takes the end inside the nest and pulls it all in, save the ear. The hen keeps inside, constantly arranging the grass with all her might, sometimes making the whole nest move by her efforts. Feathers are laid in after the grass. _4th April, 1872._--We hear that Dugumbé's men have come to Ujiji with fifty tusks. He went down Lualaba with three canoes a long way and bought much ivory. They were not molested by Monangungo as we were. My men whom I had sent to look for a book left by accident in a hut some days' journey off came back stopped by a flood in their track. Copying observations for Sir T. Maclear. _8th April, 1872._--An Arab called Seyed bin Mohamad Magibbé called. He proposes to go west to the country west of Katanga (Urangé). [It is very interesting to find that the results of the visit paid by Speke and Grant to Mtéza, King of Uganda, have already become well marked. As we see, Livingstone was at Unyanyembé when a large trading party dropped in on their way back to the king, who, it will be remembered, lives on the north-western shores of the Victoria Nyassa.] _9th April, 1872._--About 150 Waganga of Mtéza carried a present to Seyed Burghash, Sultan of Zanzibar, consisting of ivory and a young elephant.[17] He spent all the ivory in buying return presents of gunpowder, guns, soap, brandy, gin, &c., and they have stowed it all in this Tembé. This morning they have taken everything out to see if anything is spoilt. They have hundreds of packages. One of the Baganda told me yesterday that the name of the Deity is Dubalé in his tongue. _15th April, 1872._--Hung up the sounding-line on poles 1 fathom apart and tarred it. 375 fathoms of 5 strands.