154 THROUGH ANGOLA 



the poor white settler. A kindly honest folk 

 were these peasant Portuguese, who offered the 

 traveller of their best, and were grateful for the 

 drugs, dressings, and little luxuries given them. 



On the 29th October we marched for three 

 hours along a cart road which wound its way up 

 the hills to Lubango, the capital of the Huilla 

 district, and the manner of our entry was un- 

 fortunate, for I had arrested a wagon driver for 

 flogging a young ox with fiendish cruelty, and was 

 obliged immediately on arrival to take him to the 

 police station to be dealt with. 



