Seeing Me Ill, He Benevolently Offered Me His Bed.
Never shall I forget
the luxurious pleasure I enjoyed in feeling myself again
on a good English couch, after six months' sleeping on the ground.
I was soon asleep; and Mr. Gabriel, coming in almost immediately,
rejoiced at the soundness of my repose.
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.
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