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MORE DELAYS. 



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111 vain did I represent to Alvez that when Coimbra left To- 

 tela on this errand, he had been warned that the caravan would 

 not be detained for him ; yet the only explanation or excuse he 

 offered for breaking faith with me by these continued delays 

 was, that he did not wait for Coimbra, but for the men with 

 him, as their friends refused to march without them. If he per- 

 sisted in going on, he declared they would rob him of his ivory 

 and slaves. 



June, 

 1875. 



LUNGA JIANDIS BON, 



Hearing that a small party which had just arrived was inde- 

 pendent of Alvez, I endeavored to induce the leader to go for- 

 ward with me. I found that he was the slave of a Portuguese 

 trader, named Francisco Cimada Rosa, living at Mandonga, not 

 far from Dondo, on the river Kwanza. His name was Bastian 

 Jose Perez, and he spoke Portuguese. He had been away from 

 home three years, having started with some Lovale men to hunt 

 for ivory, and had worked his way by degrees to Urua. When 

 he reached there, not being sufficiently strong to return alone. 



