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Instruments.-A disagreeable Request.—Private Interviews with Shinte.-Give

him an Ox.-Fertility of Soil.-Manenko's new Hut.-Conversation with Shinte.

-Kolimbóta's Proposal.-Balonda's Punctiliousness.-Selling Children.-Kid-

napping. Shinte's Offer of a Slave.-Magic Lantern.-Alarm of Women.-De-

lay. Sambánza returns intoxicated.—The last and greatest Proof of Shinte's

Friendship...........

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. — Inqui-

ries 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 Isl-

and. 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.-Matiam-

vo'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.-Sa-

gacity of Ants.....

The Watershed between the northern and southern Rivers.-A deep Valley.-

Rustic Bridge.-Fountains on the Slopes of the Valleys.-Village of Ka-

binje.-Good Effects of the Belief in the Power of Charms.-Demand for Gun-

powder and English Calico.-The Kasai.-Vexatious Trick.-Want of Food.-

No Game. Katende's unreasonable Demand.-A grave Offense.-Toll-bridge

Flooded Valleys. Swim the Nuana Loké. -

Keeper. Greedy Guides.

Prompt Kindness of my Men. - Makololo Remarks on the rich uncultivated

Valleys.-Difference in the Color of Africans.-Reach a Village of the Chi-

boque. 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...... 355

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 Larvæ 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 Tam-

pan; its Bite.-Universal Hospitality of the Portuguese.-A Tale of the Mam-

bari.—Exhilarating Effects of Highland Scenery.—District of Golungo Alto.—

Want of good Roads.-Fertility.-Forests of gigantic Timber.-Native Carpen-

ters. Coffee Estate.-Sterility of Country near the Coast.-Musquitoes.-Fears

of the Makololo.-Welcome by Mr. Gabriel to Loanda............ .....................Page 383

Continued Sickness.-Kindness of the Bishop of Angola and her Majesty's Offi-

cers. Mr. Gabriel's unwearied Hospitality.-Serious Deportment of the Mako-

lolo. They visit Ships of War.-Politeness of the Officers and Men.-The Ma-

kololo 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 Va-

riety of Domestic Fowl.-Coffee Plantations.-Return to Golungo Alto.-Self-

complacency of the Makololo.-Fever.-Jaundice.-Insanity..............
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Visit a deserted Convent.-Favorable Report of Jesuits and their Teaching.-Gra-

dations of native Society.-Punishment of Thieves.-Palm-toddy; its baneful

Effects. Freemasons.-Marriages and Funerals.-Litigation.--Mr. Canto's Ill-

ness.-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.—Experi-

ments 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 "Fore-

runner."-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...............................

Leave Pungo Andongo.-Extent of Portuguese Power.-Meet Traders and Carri-

ers.- - 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 Cap-

tain 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 Hyæna'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 Con-

go or Zaire.-Obliged to refuse Presents.-Cross the Loajima.-Appearance of

People; Hair Fashions........

Make a Détour southward.-Peculiarities of the Inhabitants.-Scarcity of An-

imals. Forests.-Geological Structure of the Country.-Abundance and Cheap-

ness of Food near the Chihombo.-A Slave lost.-The Makololo Opinion of

Slaveholders.-Funeral Obsequies in Cabango. - Send a Sketch of the Coun-

try 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 Ba-

londa.-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 Quarrel-

ing. Eager Desire for Calico.-Want of Clothing at Kawawa's.-Funeral Ob-

servances.-Agreeable Intercourse with Kawawa.-His impudent Demand.-

Unpleasant Parting.-Kawawa tries to prevent our crossing the River Kasai.—

Stratagem........

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 Zam-

besi 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 Wa-

tershed of the Zambesi and the Nile.-Lake Dilolo.-Reach Katema's Town:

his renewed Hospitality; desire to appear like a White Man; ludicrous Depart-

ure.—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.-Dis-

patch a Message to Manenko.-Arrival of her Husband Sambanza.-The Cere-

mony called Kasendi.—Unexpected Fee for performing a surgical Operation.—

Social Condition of the Tribes.-Desertion of Mboenga.-Stratagem of Mam-

bowe Hunters.-Water-turtles.-Charged by a Buffalo.-Reception from the Peo-

ple of Libonta.-Explain the Causes of our long Delay.-Pitsane's Speech.-

Thanksgiving Services.-Appearance of my "Braves."-Wonderful Kindness of

the People.......
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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 rec-

ognized 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.-Con-

versations with Makololo.-Their moral Character and Conduct.-Sekeletu wish-

es to purchase a Sugar-mill, etc.-The Donkeys.-Influence among the Natives.

-"Food fit for a Chief."-Parting Words of Mamire.-Motibe's Excuses.. 531

Departure from Linyanti.-A Thunder-storm.-An Act of genuine Kindness.-

Fitted out a second time by the Makololo.-Sail down the Leeambye.-Sekote's

Kotla and human Skulls; his Grave adorned with Elephants' Tusks.—Victoria

Falls. Native Names.-Columns of Vapor.- Gigantic Crack.-Wear of the

Rocks.-Shrines of the Barimo.-"The Pestle of the Gods."-Second Visit to

the Falls.-Island Garden.-Store-house Island.-Native Diviners.-A Euro-

pean Diviner.-Makololo Foray.-Marauder to be fined.-Mambari.—Makololo

wish to stop Mambari Slave-trading.-Part with Sekeletu.-Night Traveling.—

River Lekone.-Ancient fresh-water Lakes.-Formation of Lake Ngami.—Na-

tive Traditions.-Drainage of the Great Valley.-Native Reports of the Country

to the North.-Maps.-Moyara's Village.-Savage Customs of the Batoka.-A

Chain of Trading Stations.-Remedy against Tsetse.-"The Well of Joy.”—

First Traces of Trade with Europeans.-Knocking out the front Teeth.-Facetious

Explanation.-Degradation of the Batoka.-Description of the Traveling Party.

-Cross the Unguesi.-Geological Formation.-Ruins of a large Town.-Pro-

ductions of the Soil similar to those in Angola.—Abundance of Fruit...Page 554

Low Hills.-Black Soldier-Ants; their Cannibalism.—The Plasterer and its Chlo-

roform.-White Ants; their Usefulness.—Mutokwane-smoking; its Effects.—

Border Territory. - Healthy Table-lands.-Geological Formation.-Cicada.—

Trees.-Flowers.-River Kalomo.-Physical Conformation of Country.-Ridges,

sanatoria. A wounded Buffalo assisted. - Buffalo-bird. -Rhinoceros-bird.—

Leaders of Herds.-The Honey-guide.-The White Mountain.—Mozuma River.

-Sebituane's old Home.-Hostile Village.-Prophetic Phrensy.-Food of the El-

ephant.-Ant-hills.-Friendly Batoka.-Clothing despised.-Method of Saluta-

tion.-Wild Fruits. - The Captive released. Longings for Peace. - Pingola's

Conquests.-The Village of Monze.-Aspect of the Country.-Visit from the

Chief Monze and his Wife.-Central healthy Locations.-Friendly Feelings of

the People in reference to a white Resident.-Fertility of the Soil.-Bashuku-

lompo Mode of dressing their Hair.-Gratitude of the Prisoner we released.-

Kindness and Remarks of Monze's Sister.-Dip of the Rocks.-Vegetation.-

Generosity of the Inhabitants.-Their Anxiety for Medicine.-Hooping-cough.

-Birds and Rain...........

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Beautiful Valley.-Buffalo.-My young Men kill two Elephants.-The Hunt.-

Mode of measuring Height of live Elephants.-Wild Animals smaller here than

in the South, though their Food is more abundant. - The Elephant a dainty

Feeder.-Semalembue.-His Presents.-Joy in prospect of living in Peace.-

Trade.-His People's way of wearing their Hair.—Their Mode of Salutation.—

Old Encampment.-Sebituane's former Residence.-Ford of Kafue.-Hippopot-

ami. — Hills and Villages.-Geological Formation.-Prodigious Quantities of

large Game.-Their Tameness.-Rains.-Less Sickness than in the Journey to

Loanda.-Reason.-Charge from an Elephant.-Vast Amount of animal Life

on the Zambesi.-Water of River discolored.-An Island with Buffaloes and

Men on it.-Native Devices for killing Game.-Tsetse now in Country.-Agri-

cultural Industry.-An Albino murdered by his Mother.-"Guilty of Tlolo."—

Women who make their Mouths "like those of Ducks."-First Symptom of the

Slave-trade on this side.-Selole's Hostility.-An armed Party hoaxed.—An

Italian Marauder slain.-Elephant's Tenacity of Life.-A Word to young Sports-

men. Mr. Oswell's Adventure with an Elephant; narrow Escape.-Mburuma's

Village. Suspicious Conduct of his People.—Guides attempt to detain us.—The

Village and People of Ma Mburuma.-Character our Guides give of us...... 599

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