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staff ; another, that of a woman, had a broken 

 pot on the mound ; while on the third, that of 

 a hunter, were placed the skulls of some of the 

 animals he had shot. 



On the following day we left Chimbangue, the 

 first village so far met in Angola with its true 

 name on the map ; for as villages are moved on 

 the death of a chief and renamed after his successor, 

 no map can keep up to date. Marching at day- 

 break next day we reached the Loando River 

 two hours later, and crossed it at a point some 

 15 miles from its junction with the Coanza. At a 

 village on the north bnnk of the river were some 

 reed buck horns and the remains of a very big 

 sitatunga head, with horns of nearly 33 inches in 

 length. 



The villagers declared that the " Kolwah " or 

 giant sable was to be found a day's march to the 

 south, and sitatunga and cob an hour's march 

 away to the east, where a river called the Luan- 

 shesha flowed from the north-east into the Loando. 

 Sending the carriers along by road to pitch a camp 

 at this river junction, the rest of us canoed up the 

 Loando, a deep river 60 to 100 yards wide even 

 in the dry seasons of the year, and navigable for 

 nearly all its course, though a f cw miles before it 

 meets the Coanza it flows over as a cataract at 

 N'Dongo. 



We camped near the junction of the Luan- 

 shesha and the Loando, and hunted for sitatunga 

 in the evening. A number of cob, in herds of 

 ten to twenty, were feeding on the open flats by 

 the banks of the river ; they were so shy as to 



