A JOURNEY UP THE RIVER CONGO. 
CHAPTER I. 
FROM SAO PAULO DE LOANDA TO THE CONGO. 
_. AmBRIZ—JOURNEY OVERLAND To Kinsempo—AN AFRICAN DINNER— 
: Booxs AS AGAINST Branpy—Descriprion oF KiINsEMBO—T'HE 
CALEMMA—VEGETATION—JOURNEY OVERLAND TO Mustra—A 
curious MonoLtitH—PuHyYTOGRAPHY OF SoutH West AFRIcCA— 
Tue Desert Bounpary or THE TRropics—AMBRIZETE—BAOBABS 
—FLoraAL Breauties—TuEe Trape Roure—TsEe NATIVES AND 
ANNEXATION—CABEGA DA Copra—THE Bush aT CABEGA DA 
Copra—lHE JASMINES—ASHIRONGO—THE Conco—Its Mout 
—CoLourn oF THE Warer—Banana Pornt—Krusorys—Krv- 
MANOS AND KABINDAS—APPRENTICESHIP AND SLAVERY. 
In the month of October, 1882, I left Loanda to carry out 
a long-cherished idea of visiting the river Congo, to study 
its little-known natural history, and to endeavour to por- 
tray as accurately as possible the landscapes and inhabi- 
tants of lands which photography had not yet reached, 
and where no student of nature had ever penetrated. 
Having obtained a passage on board a Dutch trading- 
steamer, I proceeded up the coast northwards to Ambriz, 
the last possession of the Portuguese province of Angola,* 
and lying distant from Loanda some sixty miles. When 
we reached this place, early in the morning, I left the 
steamer for a time, intending to journey some distance 
* Since the date when this was written, Portuguese. territory has 
been extended from Ambriz to the mouth of the Congo; though all 
the land north of Ambriz is placed within the Free Trade area of the 
_ , Congo Basin.—H. H. J. 
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