Xll CONTENTS. 



Cotton-Seed- -Abundance of Cotton in the Country — Sickness of Sekeletu's 

 Horse — Eclipse of the Sun — Insects which distill Water — Experiments with 

 them — Proceed to Ambaca — Present from Mr. Schut, of Loanda — Visit Pungo 

 Andongo — Its Good Pasturage, Grain, Fruit, Ac. — The Fort and Columnar 

 Rocks — Salubrity of Pungo Andongo— Price of a Slave — A Merchant-Prince 

 • — His Hospitality — Hear of the Loss of my Papers in "Forerunner" — Nar- 

 row Escape from an Alligator — Ancient Burinl-Places — Neglect of Agricul- 

 ture in Angola — Manioc the Staple Product — Its Cheapness — Sickness — • 

 Friendly Visit from a Colored Priest — The Prince of Congo — No Priests in 

 the Interior of Angola Page 265 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Leave Pungo Andongo — Extent of Portuguese Power — Meet Traders and Car- 

 riers — Descend the Heights of Tala Mungongo — Cassange Village — Quinine 

 and Cathory— Sickness of Captain Neves's Infant — Loss of Life from the 

 Ordeal— Wide-Spread Superstitions— The Chieftainship — Receive Copies of 

 the "Times" — Trading Pombeiros- Present for Matiamvo — Fever after 

 Westerly Winds — Capabilities of Angola for producing the Raw Materials 

 of English Manufacture — Trading-Parties with Ivory — More Fever — A 

 Hyena's Choice — Makololo Opinion of the Portuguese — Cypriano's Debt- - 

 A Funeral — Dread of Disembodied Spirits — Crossing the Quango — Amba- 

 kistas called " The Jews of Angola" — Fashions of the Bashinje — Approach 

 the Village of Sansawe — His Idea of Dignity — The Pombeiros' Present — 

 Long Detention — A Blow on the Beard — Attacked in a Forest — Sudden 

 Conversion of a Fighting Chief to Peace-Principles by means of a Re- 

 volver — No Blood shed in consequence — Rate of Travelling — Feeders of the 

 Congo or Zaire — Obliged to refuse Presents — Cross the Loajima — Appear- 

 ance of People: Hair-Fashions 280 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Make a Devour southward — The Chihombo — Cabango — Send a Sketoh of the 

 Country to Mr. Gabriel — The Chief Bango — Valley of the Loembwe — Fune- 

 ral Observances — Agreeable Intercourse with Kawawa — His Impudent De- 

 mand 298 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Level Plains — Vultures — Twenty-Seventh Attack of Fever — Reach Katema's 

 Town — His Renewed Hospitality — Ford Southern Branch of Lake Dilolo — 

 Hearty Welcome from Shinte — Nyamoana now a Widow — Purchase Canoes 

 and descend the Leeba — Despatch a Message to Manenko — Arrival of her 

 Husband Sambanza — Mambawe Hunters — Charged by a Buffalo — Reception 

 from the People of Libonta — Explain the Causes of our Long Delay — Pit- 

 sane's Speech — Thanksgiving Services — Appearance of my " Braves" — Won- 

 derful Kindness of the People 303 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Colony of Birds called Linkololo — The Village of Chitlane — Murder of Mpo- 

 lolo's Daughter — Execution of the Murderer and his Wife — My Companions 

 find that their Wives have married other Husbands — Sunday — A Party from 

 Masiko — Freedom of Speech — Canoe struck by a Hippopotamus — Appear- 

 ance of Trees at the End of Winter — Murky Atmosphere— Surprising Amount 

 of Organic Life — The Packages forwarded by Mr. Moffat — Makololo Suspi- 

 cions and Reply to the Matebele who brought them — Convey the Goods to 

 an Island and build a Hut over them — Ascertain that Sir R. Murchison had 



