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—Matiamvo'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—Sagacity of Ants.

   Chapter 18. The Watershed between the northern and southern
   Rivers—A deep Valley—Rustic Bridge—Fountains on the Slopes
   of the Valleys—Village of Kabinje—Good Effects of the Belief
   in the Power of Charms—Demand for Gunpowder and English
   Calico—The Kasai—Vexatious Trick—Want of Food—No Game—
   Katende's unreasonable Demand—A grave Offense—Toll-bridge
   Keeper—Greedy Guides—Flooded Valleys—Swim the Nyuana Loke—
   Prompt Kindness of my Men—Makololo Remarks on the rich
   uncultivated Valleys—Difference in the Color of Africans—
   Reach a Village of the Chiboque—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.

   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.—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