Chapter 20.
Continued Sickness - Kindness Of The Bishop Of Angola
And Her Majesty's Officers - Mr. Gabriel's Unwearied Hospitality -
Serious Deportment
Of the Makololo - They visit Ships of War -
Politeness of the Officers and Men - The Makololo attend Mass
in the
Cathedral - Their Remarks - Find Employment
in collecting Firewood and unloading Coal - Their superior Judgment
respecting Goods - Beneficial Influence of the Bishop of Angola -
The City of St. Paul de Loanda - The Harbor - Custom-house -
No English Merchants - Sincerity of the Portuguese Government
in suppressing the Slave-trade - Convict Soldiers -
Presents from Bishop and Merchants for Sekeletu - Outfit - Leave Loanda
20th September, 1854 - Accompanied by Mr. Gabriel as far as Icollo i Bengo
- Sugar Manufactory - Geology of this part of the Country -
Women spinning Cotton - Its Price - Native Weavers - Market-places -
Cazengo; its Coffee Plantations - South American Trees -
Ruins of Iron Foundry - Native Miners - The Banks of the Lucalla -
Cottages with Stages - Tobacco-plants - Town of Massangano -
Sugar and Rice - Superior District for Cotton - Portuguese Merchants
and foreign Enterprise - Ruins - The Fort and its ancient Guns -
Former Importance of Massangano - Fires - The Tribe Kisama -
Peculiar Variety of Domestic Fowl - Coffee Plantations -
Return to Golungo Alto - Self-complacency of the Makololo -
Fever - Jaundice - Insanity.
Chapter 21.
Visit a deserted Convent - Favorable Report of Jesuits and their Teaching
- Gradations of native Society - Punishment of Thieves -
Palm-toddy; its baneful Effects - Freemasons - Marriages and Funerals -
Litigation - Mr. Canto's Illness - Bad Behavior of his Slaves -
An Entertainment - Ideas on Free Labor - Loss of American Cotton-seed -
Abundance of Cotton in the country - Sickness of Sekeletu's Horse -
Eclipse of the Sun - Insects which distill Water -
Experiments with them - Proceed to Ambaca - Sickly Season -
Office of Commandant - Punishment of official Delinquents -
Present from Mr. Schut of Loanda - Visit Pungo Andongo -
Its good Pasturage, Grain, Fruit, etc.
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