--Friendly Visit from a
colored Priest--The Prince of Congo--No Priests in the
Interior of Angola.

Chapter 22. Leave Pungo Andongo--Extent of Portuguese Power--
Meet Traders and Carriers--Red Ants; their fierce Attack;
Usefulness; Numbers--Descend the Heights of Tala Mungongo--
Fruit-trees in the Valley of Cassange--Edible Muscle--Birds--
Cassange Village--Quinine and Cathory--Sickness of Captain
Neves' Infant--A Diviner thrashed--Death of the Child--
Mourning--Loss of Life from the Ordeal--Wide-spread
Superstitions--The Chieftainship--Charms--Receive Copies of
the "Times"--Trading Pombeiros--Present for Matiamvo--Fever
after westerly Winds--Capabilities of Angola for producing the
raw Materials of English Manufacture--Trading Parties with
Ivory--More Fever--A Hyaena's Choice--Makololo Opinion of the
Portuguese--Cypriano's Debt--A Funeral--Dread of disembodied
Spirits--Beautiful Morning Scenes--Crossing the Quango--
Ambakistas called "The Jews of Angola"--Fashions of the
Bashinje--Approach the Village of Sansawe--His Idea of
Dignity--The Pombeiros' Present--Long Detention--A Blow on the
Beard--Attacked in a Forest--Sudden Conversion of a fighting
Chief to Peace Principles by means of a Revolver--No Blood
shed in consequence--Rate of Traveling--Slave Women--Way of
addressing Slaves--Their thievish Propensities--Feeders of the
Congo or Zaire--Obliged to refuse Presents--Cross the Loajima--
Appearance of People; Hair Fashions.

Chapter 23. Make a Detour southward--Peculiarities of the
Inhabitants--Scarcity of Animals--Forests--Geological
Structure of the Country--Abundance and Cheapness of Food near
the Chihombo--A Slave lost--The Makololo Opinion of
Slaveholders--Funeral Obsequies in Cabango--Send a Sketch of
the Country to Mr. Gabriel--Native Information respecting the
Kasai and Quango--The Trade with Luba--Drainage of Londa--
Report of Matiamvo's Country and Government--Senhor Faria's
Present to a Chief--The Balonda Mode of spending Time--
Faithless Guide--Makololo lament the Ignorance of the Balonda--
Eagerness of the Villagers for Trade--Civility of a Female
Chief--The Chief Bango and his People--Refuse to eat Beef--
Ambition of Africans to have a Village--Winters in the
Interior--Spring at Kolobeng--White Ants: "Never could desire
to eat any thing better"--Young Herbage and Animals--Valley of