- 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. - The Fort and columnar Rocks -
The Queen of Jinga - Salubrity of Pungo Andongo - Price of a Slave -
A Merchant-prince - His Hospitality - Hear of the Loss of my Papers
in "Forerunner" - Narrow Escape from an Alligator -
Ancient Burial-places - Neglect of Agriculture in Angola -
Manioc the staple Product - Its Cheapness - Sickness -
Friendly Visit from a colored Priest - The Prince of Congo -
No Priests in the Interior of Angola.
Chapter 22.
Leave Pungo Andongo - Extent of Portuguese Power -
Meet Traders and Carriers - Red Ants; their fierce Attack;
Usefulness; Numbers - Descend the Heights of Tala Mungongo -
Fruit-trees in the Valley of Cassange - Edible Muscle -
Birds - Cassange Village - Quinine and Cathory -
Sickness of Captain Neves' Infant - A Diviner thrashed -
Death of the Child - Mourning - Loss of Life from the Ordeal -
Wide-spread Superstitions - The Chieftainship - Charms -
Receive Copies of the "Times" - Trading Pombeiros -
Present for Matiamvo - Fever after westerly Winds - Capabilities of Angola
for producing the raw Materials of English Manufacture -
Trading Parties with Ivory - More Fever - A Hyaena's Choice -
Makololo Opinion of the Portuguese - Cypriano's Debt - A Funeral -
Dread of disembodied Spirits - Beautiful Morning Scenes -
Crossing the Quango - Ambakistas called "The Jews of Angola" -
Fashions of the Bashinje - Approach the Village of Sansawe -
His Idea of Dignity - The Pombeiros' Present - Long Detention -
A Blow on the Beard - Attacked in a Forest - Sudden Conversion
of a fighting Chief to Peace Principles by means of a Revolver -
No Blood shed in consequence - Rate of Traveling - Slave Women -
Way of addressing Slaves - Their thievish Propensities -
Feeders of the Congo or Zaire - Obliged to refuse Presents -
Cross the Loajima - Appearance of People; Hair Fashions.
Chapter 23.
Make a Detour southward - Peculiarities of the Inhabitants -
Scarcity of Animals - Forests - Geological Structure of the Country -
Abundance and Cheapness of Food near the Chihombo - A Slave lost -
The Makololo Opinion of Slaveholders - Funeral Obsequies in Cabango -
Send a Sketch of the Country to Mr. Gabriel - Native Information
respecting the Kasai and Quango - The Trade with Luba -
Drainage of Londa - Report of Matiamvo's Country and Government -
Senhor Faria's Present to a Chief - The Balonda Mode of spending Time -
Faithless Guide - Makololo lament the Ignorance of the Balonda -
Eagerness of the Villagers for Trade - Civility of a Female Chief -
The Chief Bango and his People - Refuse to eat Beef - Ambition of Africans
to have a Village - Winters in the Interior - Spring at Kolobeng -
White Ants: "Never could desire to eat any thing better" -
Young Herbage and Animals - Valley of the Loembwe -
The white Man a Hobgoblin - Specimen of Quarreling -
Eager Desire for Calico - Want of Clothing at Kawawa's -
Funeral Observances - Agreeable Intercourse with Kawawa -
His impudent Demand - Unpleasant Parting - Kawawa tries to prevent
our crossing the River Kasai - Stratagem.
Chapter 24.
Level Plains - Vultures and other Birds - Diversity of Color in Flowers
of the same Species - The Sundew - Twenty-seventh Attack of Fever -
A River which flows in opposite Directions - Lake Dilolo the Watershed
between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans - Position of Rocks -
Sir Roderick Murchison's Explanation - Characteristics of the Rainy Season
in connection with the Floods of the Zambesi and the Nile -
Probable Reason of Difference in Amount of Rain South and North
of the Equator - Arab Reports of Region east of Londa -
Probable Watershed of the Zambesi and the Nile - Lake Dilolo -
Reach Katema's Town: his renewed Hospitality; desire to appear
like a White Man; ludicrous Departure - Jackdaws -
Ford southern Branch of Lake Dilolo - Small Fish - Project for
a Makololo Village near the Confluence of the Leeba and the Leeambye -
Hearty Welcome from Shinte - Kolimbota's Wound -
Plant-seeds and Fruit-trees brought from Angola -
Masiko and Limboa's Quarrel - Nyamoana now a Widow -
Purchase Canoes and descend the Leeba - Herds of wild Animals on its Banks
- Unsuccessful Buffalo-hunt - Frogs - Sinbad and the Tsetse -
Dispatch a Message to Manenko - Arrival of her Husband Sambanza -
The Ceremony called Kasendi - Unexpected Fee for performing
a surgical Operation - Social Condition of the Tribes -
Desertion of Mboenga - Stratagem of Mambowe Hunters - Water-turtles -
Charged by a Buffalo - Reception from the People of Libonta -
Explain the Causes of our long Delay - Pitsane's Speech -
Thanksgiving Services - Appearance of my "Braves" -
Wonderful Kindness of the People.
Chapter 25.
Colony of Birds called Linkololo - The Village of Chitlane -
Murder of Mpololo's Daughter - Execution of the Murderer and his Wife -
My Companions find that their Wives have married other Husbands -
Sunday - A Party from Masiko - Freedom of Speech - Canoe struck
by a Hippopotamus - Gonye - Appearance of Trees at the end of Winter -
Murky Atmosphere - Surprising Amount of organic Life -
Hornets - The Packages forwarded by Mr. Moffat -
Makololo Suspicions and Reply to the Matebele who brought them -
Convey the Goods to an Island and build a Hut over them - Ascertain that
Sir R. Murchison had recognized the true Form of African Continent -
Arrival at Linyanti - A grand Picho - Shrewd Inquiry -
Sekeletu in his Uniform - A Trading-party sent to Loanda with Ivory -
Mr. Gabriel's Kindness to them - Difficulties in Trading -
Two Makololo Forays during our Absence - Report of the Country to the N.E.
- Death of influential Men - The Makololo desire to be nearer the Market
- Opinions upon a Change of Residence - Climate of Barotse Valley -
Diseases - Author's Fevers not a fair Criterion in the Matter -
The Interior an inviting Field for the Philanthropist - Consultations about
a Path to the East Coast - Decide on descending North Bank of Zambesi -
Wait for the Rainy Season - Native way of spending Time during the period
of greatest Heat - Favorable Opening for Missionary Enterprise -
Ben Habib wishes to marry - A Maiden's Choice - Sekeletu's Hospitality -
Sulphureted Hydrogen and Malaria - Conversations with Makololo -
Their moral Character and Conduct - Sekeletu wishes to purchase
a Sugar-mill, etc.
