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.

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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