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villages where villages were shown on the map, 

 but the rivers on it were also all wrongly marked. 

 Two of these, shown as the Zanca and Canda, no 

 one had ever heard of, while another, called the 

 Longoe, which we met and followed for a day's 

 march on our fourth traverse to the south-w r est, 

 was not marked on the map at all. I called this 

 river the Southern Longoe, to distinguish it from 

 the other mosquito-haunted river of that name 

 which we had met farther north. Near the 

 Southern Longoe we met a broad new road running 

 roughly north and south to join Melanje, with a 

 new post called Chimbango ; and following this 

 road for three hours to the south, we came to 

 a well-built Portuguese post, where I found my 

 friend Colonel Cardozo, and two other Portuguese 

 officers, who entertained me most hospitably. 



Some 8 miles to the east of the delightful 

 forest-clad hills of Chimbango flowed the River 

 Loando, the goal of my fourth traverse. To the 

 south-west of Chimbango, and some 30 miles 

 away, was the country where Varian had shot his 

 first sable, and where these animals were known 

 to be numerous. I marched there, halting at a 

 Portuguese store called Tetua, about 15 miles 

 from Chimbango, where I arrived late at night 

 without any of my caravan, who had lost their 

 road. 



It was at this time that I suffered a very great 

 misfortune, the destruction of most of my photo- 

 graphs. The setting alight of a paper-made dark- 

 room lamp by the fall of its melting candle, not 

 only fogged two dozen films which were being 



