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A sequence of expedition journals and a companion narrative record prolonged travels through Central Africa, offering daily itineraries, geographic observations of Lake Tanganyika and the Lualaba basin, natural-history notes, and encounters with Manyuema communities and Arab traders. Recurrent illness, shortages, and the effects of disease and wounds shape many entries, while efforts to trace river sources and secure communications unfold alongside accounts of local customs, hunting, and caravan politics. The appended eyewitness report by close attendants describes the explorer's final suffering and death.
[37] The men consider it five days' march "only carrying a gun" from the Molilamo to the bank of the Luapula—this in rough reckoning, at the rate of native travelling, would give a distance of say 120 to 150 miles.—ED.
[38] This comparison was got at from the remarks made by Susi and Chuma at an agricultural show; they pointed out the resemblance borne by the shorthorns and by the Alderney bulls to several breeds near Lake Bemba.—ED.