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NATURAL HATS. 



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posing that the end of the world was come, though the diminn- 

 tion of light was very considerable. 



Kanyuniba was very civil, and sent me a calf as a free gift, 

 for I had nothing whatever to present him with in return. 

 This was the first meat I had tasted, with the exception of a 

 dove I had shot, since leaving Sha Kelembe's. 



When the old man heard I had walked from the other side 

 of the continent and intended to go home by sea, he earnestly 

 tried to dissuade me, promising that if I returned his way he 

 would do every thing he could to assist me. If I went by wa- 

 ter, he said I should be certain to lose my way, as there would 

 be no marks whatever to guide me. 



Alvez, ever ready for any dishonest action, tried to cheat me 

 out of the calf Kanyumba had given me, asserting that he had 

 paid for it ; but from some of his followers, who were on any 

 thing but good terms with him, I learned that this was entirely 

 false, and therefore refused to surrender the veal. 



The people ofKimbandi dress their hair very tastefully, 

 sometimes wearing it on one side of the 

 head, in the form of a small cocked hat 

 trimmed with cowries, while the hair on 

 the other side hano-s down in lono- rino-- 

 lets. Others make their hair resemble 

 a low -crowned hat, the brim being 

 trimmed with beads or cowries. 



We left our hospitable friend Kan- 

 yumba on the 30th of September, and 

 camped close to the banks of the Kwan- 

 za, where we were rejoined by men who 

 had been to Alvez's settlement to obtain 

 cloth to pay our passage across the river. 



From them I heard that Joao — Joao Baptista Ferreira, as I 

 now found he was called — was still at Bihe with another white 

 man, Guilherme Gongalves, who had lately arrived from Eu- 

 rope. I was also informed that the letter sent by me had been 

 dispatched to Joao for forwarding to the coast. My endeavors 

 to gain any news of European affairs were unsuccessful, for no 

 one had any ideas of any thing beyond Bihe and Benguela. 

 They were entirely wrapped up in the affairs of their own little 



September, 



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