QUILLENGES TO LUBANGO 153 



li: was nearly a week before the Administrator 

 of Quillengcs could procure me even eight carriers, 

 so prosperous are these pastoral people, but they 

 arrived at last on the evening of the 27th October, 

 and the march south w r as resumed. 



Six miles along the road w r e found a store, 

 with its hospitable Portuguese owner and his 

 English guest, a Mr. Cooper, who was trying with 

 little success to buy cattle and wagons and arrange 

 for herdsmen and drivers to take them to the 

 great diamond field of the distant Kasai district. 

 From this store at Bonga a four hours' march 

 brought us to another at Lucando, and another 

 four hours' scramble over the hills to camp at a 

 village near Condombas. The next day was spent 

 climbing and ascending a still higher range of 

 hills to a store called Matakas, where my carriers 

 did not arrive till dark, and my first meal since 

 early morning was taken at midnight. 



The land had been rising all the way from 

 Quillengcs, and was now well over 3000 feet above 

 sea-level ; while the comparatively well-watered 

 country was pretty with green glade and leafed 

 forest. 



A march of 20 miles the next day brought us 

 ro the Cacoluvar River and two small farms of 

 Portuguese settlers, wan, barefooted, and poorly 

 dressed, who were living like the poor in Portugal, 

 though in ? country where white poverty is 

 impossible ; for the European cannot tolerate the 

 African sun and its climate in conditions similar 

 to those of the negro race, which has survived 

 them for centuries. Africa is not yet ready for 



