ers.
21 basket-makers.

The cattle in the district are: 10 asses, 401 oxen, 492 cows,
3933 sheep, 1699 goats, 909 swine; and as an annual tax is
levied of sixpence per head on all stock, it is probable that
the returns are less than the reality.

Being anxious to obtain some more knowledge of this interesting country
and its ancient missionary establishments than the line of route by
which we had come afforded, I resolved to visit the town of Massangano,
which is situated to the south of Golungo Alto, and at the confluence of
the rivers Lucalla and Coanza. This led me to pass through the district
of Cazengo, which is rather famous for the abundance and excellence
of its coffee. Extensive coffee plantations were found to exist on the
sides of the several lofty mountains that compose this district. They
were not planted by the Portuguese. The Jesuit and other missionaries
are known to have brought some of the fine old Mocha seed, and these
have propagated themselves far and wide; hence the excellence of
the Angola coffee. Some have asserted that, as new plantations
were constantly discovered even during the period of our visit, the
coffee-tree was indigenous; but the fact that pine-apples, bananas,
yams, orange-trees, custard apple-trees, pitangas, guavas, and other
South American trees, were found by me in the same localities with the
recently-discovered coffee, would seem to indicate that all foreign
trees must have been introduced by the same agency. It is known that the
Jesuits also introduced many other trees for the sake of their timber
alone. Numbers of these have spread over the country, some have probably
died out, and others failed to spread, like a lonely specimen which
stands in what was the Botanic Garden of Loanda, and, though most useful
in yielding a substitute for frankincense, is the only one of the kind
in Africa.

A circumstance which would facilitate the extensive propagation of the
coffee on the proper clay soil is this: The seed, when buried beneath
the soil, generally dies, while that which is sown broadcast, with no
covering except the shade of the trees, vegetates readily. The agent in
sowing in this case is a bird, which eats the outer rind, and throws
the kernel on the ground. This plant can not bear the direct rays of
the sun; consequently, when a number of the trees are discovered in the
forest, all that is necessary is to clear away the brushwood, and
leave as many of the