s. As I was in the same state of mind in which individuals are
who commit a petty depredation in order to obtain the shelter and food
of a prison, I gladly accompanied him to the house of the commandant or
Chefe, Senhor de Silva Rego. Having shown my passport to this gentleman,
he politely asked me to supper, and, as we had eaten nothing except
the farina of Cypriano from the Quango to this, I suspect I appeared
particularly ravenous to the other gentlemen around the table. They
seemed, however, to understand my position pretty well, from having all
traveled extensively themselves; had they not been present, I might have
put some in my pocket to eat by night; for, after fever, the appetite
is excessively keen, and manioc is one of the most unsatisfying kinds of
food. Captain Antonio Rodrigues Neves then kindly invited me to take
up my abode in his house. Next morning this generous man arrayed me in
decent clothing, and continued during the whole period of my stay to
treat me as if I had been his brother. I feel deeply grateful to him for
his disinterested kindness. He not only attended to my wants, but also
furnished food for my famishing party free of charge.

The village of Cassange (pronounced Kassanje) is composed of thirty or
forty traders' houses, scattered about without any regularity, on an
elevated flat spot in the great Quango or Cassange valley. They are
built of wattle and daub, and surrounded by plantations of manioc,
maize, etc. Behind them there are usually kitchen gardens, in which
the common European vegetables, as potatoes, peas, cabbages, onions,
tomatoes, etc., etc., grow. Guavas and bananas appear, from the size and
abundance of the trees, to have been introduced many years ago, while
the land was still in the possession of the natives; but pine-apples,
orange, fig, and cashew trees have but lately been tried. There are
about forty Portuguese traders in this district, all of whom are
officers in the militia, and many of them have become rich from adopting
the plan of sending out Pombeiros, or native traders, with large
quantities of goods, to trade in the more remote parts of the country.
Some of the governors of Loanda, the capital of this, the kingdom of
Angola, have insisted on the observance of a law which, from motives
of humanity, forbids the Portuguese themselves from passing beyond the
boundary. They seem to have taken it for granted that, in cases where
the white trader was killed, the aggre