52 THROUGH ANGOLA 



The Portuguese have a military post with a 

 Chief of District at Canganclalla. This officer 

 had formerly been administrator at Madzamba, 

 in the Cheringoma range in Mozambique (Por- 

 tuguese East Africa), where many years ago, 

 when hunting near Madzamba, I had killed a 

 number of lions and among them some man- 

 eaters, which had given a good deal of trouble 

 locally. When the former Commandant rccog- 

 ni/xl his visitor, he treated me with the greatest 

 kindness, and did everything possible to assist my 

 plans. 



The buildings at Cangandalla were in a 

 wretched state of disrepair, and my friend in- 

 formed me that the Angolan. Government did not 

 spend money on ils administration as freely as 

 the privately organized Mozambique Company 

 did in East Africa. 



A I dinner we had many a good yarn of the 

 old days in Mozambique, and laughed heartily at 

 the recollection of the tricks of one sportsman, 

 who, after poisoning a number of lions, had written 

 a book on his hunting experiences, in which even 

 the photos of the lions suggest death by poison. 

 One of this sportsman's native boys had been with 

 me in 1908, when we came acros-, i:hc mummified 

 eareas scs of his poisoned animal baits ; and here I 

 was, listening to the story of the Commandant of 

 Madzamba, in whose district and to whose know- 

 ledge the poisoning of these animals had been 

 carricv! out, 



ii wu;j noi (i<M;f by the- i'arnoi..-. sbori sinan 

 alone; he formed u sort o.l syndicate, the other 



