"Oh, no; it is an exaggeration. A certain Bakhit Bey succeeded in taking 8000 head during a raid he made in Makraka, during Raouf Pasha's Governor-Generalship; but he was severely censured for the act, as such wholesale raiding only tended to depopulate a country. That has been the greatest number of cattle obtained at one time. I have had occasion to order forays to be made to obtain food, but 1600 head has been the greatest number we have ever succeeded in 1888.
May 14.
Nsabé. obtaining at one time. Other forays have resulted in bringing us 500, 800, and 1200 head."
Both yesterday and to-day have been very pleasant. The temperature of air in shade, according to Fahrenheit, has been as follows:—
| 9 A.M. Breeze from S.E. | 86° | |
| 10.30 A.M. Breeze from S.E. | 88°30" | |
| 1.30 P.M. Breeze from S.E. | 88°30" | |
| 7 P.M. Breeze from S.E. | 76° | |
| Midnight Breeze from S.E. | 73° | |
| 6 A.M. Breeze from S.E. | 73° | |
| Compensated aneroid. Mean 2·350 feet above sea. |
May 16th.—Nsabé Camp.
The steamer Khedive departed this morning for Mswa Station and Tunguru, and probably for Wadelai, to hurry up a certain number of porters to replace our men lost by starvation in the wilderness. Captain Casati and Mons. Vita Hassan, the Tunisian apothecary, have sailed with her.
In order to keep my men occupied, I have begun cutting a straight road through the plain towards Badzwa Village. When we take our departure hence we shall find our advantage in the shorter cut than by taking the roundabout path by Nyamsassi Island and the site of old Kavalli.
Fetteh, our interpreter, wounded in the stomach at the skirmish of Bessé, is now quite recovered, and is fast regaining his old weight.
Mabruki, the son of Kassim, so mangled by the buffalo the other day, is slowly improving.
The man wounded by a spear in the back during his foray into the villages of Lando, shows also signs of rapid recovery.
We live in hay-cock huts now, and may consider ourselves householders (according to Emin Pasha) of the Albert Nyanza Province.