- 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:
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