L. 21. P. 39. Willie's compass bearing taken during his trip out (magn.) From Karike: Karike 192° SE and SSW 223° NW and SW 289° Small hill (open Blücher) 167 From Naini Techa proper: Karike 234° Mabon 336° From Luepo Camp: Karike 245° Mabon → Village 250° From Mabon Village Karike 220° S tip Blücher 144(?) Tanganyika 89° Leaving Luepo for Blücher Mabon (346°) = 353° must be somewhere near Madini this morning. If she gets away from the "main" the following day (Aug. 5) She will still not reach the Groville camp under a week, I suspect. Evening: little news except that we have been packing and cleaning up and putting final touches on rafts. Even so when we come to test things we may find we need more. The final plan is to keep together then a white man or a native policeman in charge of each raft. Not take care of eleven rafts. The rest will have to be handled by leading boys. Tuesday Aug. 4. The "Pond" reached the "main" this morning, as I learned from a special schedule at noon. And we for our part got away with all our 12 (not 14) rafts at 8 o'clock. We traveled till 6, 30, encountering one or two shallows where some rafts went aground and had to be helped off. They are heavy H-lop craft a hard to hand except in perfectly smooth straight going. About 4 torrential rain started & tonight the river is rising & rain still falling. The order of march (so far as it can be held) is Heely in lead with a fairly light raft, then Willie's, then a boys' raft, then my raft, boys' raft, Brass's raft, the remaining boys' rafts + in the rear Pond's raft. Pond