Present - A Man and his two Wives - Hunters -
Message from Manenko, a female Chief - Mambari Traders - A Dream -
Sheakondo and his People - Teeth-filing - Desire for Butter -
Interview with Nyamoana, another female Chief - Court Etiquette -
Hair versus Wool - Increase of Superstition - Arrival of Manenko;
her Appearance and Husband - Mode of Salutation - Anklets -
Embassy, with a Present from Masiko - Roast Beef - Manioc -
Magic Lantern - Manenko an accomplished Scold: compels us to wait -
Unsuccessful Zebra-hunt.
Chapter 16.
Nyamoana's Present - Charms - Manenko's pedestrian Powers - An Idol -
Balonda Arms - Rain - Hunger - Palisades - Dense Forests -
Artificial Beehives - Mushrooms - Villagers lend the Roofs of their Houses
- Divination and Idols - Manenko's Whims - A night Alarm -
Shinte's Messengers and Present - The proper Way to approach a Village -
A Merman - Enter Shinte's Town: its Appearance -
Meet two half-caste Slave-traders - The Makololo scorn them -
The Balonda real Negroes - Grand Reception from Shinte -
His Kotla - Ceremony of Introduction - The Orators - Women -
Musicians and Musical Instruments - A disagreeable Request -
Private Interviews with Shinte - Give him an Ox - Fertility of Soil -
Manenko's new Hut - Conversation with Shinte - Kolimbota's Proposal -
Balonda's Punctiliousness - Selling Children - Kidnapping -
Shinte's Offer of a Slave - Magic Lantern - Alarm of Women -
Delay - Sambanza returns intoxicated - The last and greatest
Proof of Shinte's Friendship.
Chapter 17.
Leave Shinte - Manioc Gardens - Mode of preparing the poisonous kind -
Its general Use - Presents of Food - Punctiliousness of the Balonda -
Their Idols and Superstition - Dress of the Balonda -
Villages beyond Lonaje - Cazembe - Our Guides and the Makololo -
Night Rains - Inquiries for English cotton Goods - Intemese's Fiction -
Visit from an old Man - Theft - Industry of our Guide -
Loss of Pontoon - Plains covered with Water - Affection of the Balonda
for their Mothers - A Night on an Island - The Grass on the Plains -
Source of the Rivers - Loan of the Roofs of Huts - A Halt -
Fertility of the Country through which the Lokalueje flows -
Omnivorous Fish - Natives' Mode of catching them -
The Village of a Half-brother of Katema, his Speech and Present -
Our Guide's Perversity - Mozenkwa's pleasant Home and Family -
Clear Water of the flooded Rivers - A Messenger from Katema -
Quendende's Village: his Kindness - Crop of Wool -
Meet People from the Town of Matiamvo - Fireside Talk -
Matiamvo's Character and Conduct - Presentation at Katema's Court:
his Present, good Sense, and Appearance - Interview on the following Day -
Cattle - A Feast and a Makololo Dance - Arrest of a Fugitive -
Dignified old Courtier - Katema's lax Government -
Cold Wind from the North - Canaries and other singing Birds -
Spiders, their Nests and Webs - Lake Dilolo - Tradition -
Sagacity of Ants.
Chapter 18.
The Watershed between the northern and southern Rivers - A deep Valley -
Rustic Bridge - Fountains on the Slopes of the Valleys -
Village of Kabinje - Good Effects of the Belief in the Power of Charms -
Demand for Gunpowder and English Calico - The Kasai - Vexatious Trick -
Want of Food - No Game - Katende's unreasonable Demand -
A grave Offense - Toll-bridge Keeper - Greedy Guides -
Flooded Valleys - Swim the Nyuana Loke - Prompt Kindness of my Men -
Makololo Remarks on the rich uncultivated Valleys -
Difference in the Color of Africans - Reach a Village of the Chiboque -
The Head Man's impudent Message - Surrounds our Encampment
with his Warriors - The Pretense - Their Demand - Prospect of a Fight -
Way in which it was averted - Change our Path - Summer -
Fever - Beehives and the Honey-guide - Instinct of Trees -
Climbers - The Ox Sinbad - Absence of Thorns in the Forests -
Plant peculiar to a forsaken Garden - Bad Guides -
Insubordination suppressed - Beset by Enemies - A Robber Party -
More Troubles - Detained by Ionga Panza - His Village -
Annoyed by Bangala Traders - My Men discouraged -
Their Determination and Precaution.
Chapter 19.
Guides prepaid - Bark Canoes - Deserted by Guides -
Mistakes respecting the Coanza - Feelings of freed Slaves -
Gardens and Villages - Native Traders - A Grave - Valley of the Quango -
Bamboo - White Larvae used as Food - Bashinje Insolence -
A posing Question - The Chief Sansawe - His Hostility -
Pass him safely - The River Quango - Chief's mode of dressing his Hair -
Opposition - Opportune Aid by Cypriano - His generous Hospitality -
Ability of Half-castes to read and write - Books and Images -
Marauding Party burned in the Grass - Arrive at Cassange - A good Supper
- Kindness of Captain Neves - Portuguese Curiosity and Questions -
Anniversary of the Resurrection - No Prejudice against Color -
Country around Cassange - Sell Sekeletu's Ivory - Makololo's Surprise
at the high Price obtained - Proposal to return Home, and Reasons -
Soldier-guide - Hill Kasala - Tala Mungongo, Village of -
Civility of Basongo - True Negroes - A Field of Wheat -
Carriers - Sleeping-places - Fever - Enter District of Ambaca -
Good Fruits of Jesuit Teaching - The `Tampan'; its Bite -
Universal Hospitality of the Portuguese - A Tale of the Mambari -
Exhilarating Effects of Highland Scenery - District of Golungo Alto -
Want of good Roads - Fertility - Forests of gigantic Timber -
Native Carpenters - Coffee Estate - Sterility of Country near the Coast -
Mosquitoes - Fears of the Makololo - Welcome by Mr. Gabriel to Loanda.
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.
