286 RENEWED ATTACK OF FEVER. 



weight of 256 lbs. The ivory which comes from the east 

 and northeast of Cassange is very much larger than any 

 to be found farther south. Captain Neves had one weigh- 

 ing 120 lbs. ; and this weight is by no means uncommon. 

 They have been found weighing even 158 lbs. 



Before reaching the Quango we were again brought to 

 a stand, by fever in two of my companions, close to the 

 residence of a Portuguese who rejoiced in the name of 

 William Tell and who lived here in spite of the prohibition 

 of the Government. We were using the water of a pond; 

 and this gentleman, having come to invite me to dinner, 

 drank a little of it, and caught fever in consequence. If 

 malarious matter existed in water, it would have been a 

 wonder had we escaped ; for, travelling in the sun, with 

 the thermometer from 96° to 98° in the shade, the evapora- 

 tion from our bodies causing much thirst, we generally 

 partook of eve«ry water we came to. We had probably 

 thus more disease than others might suffer who had better 

 shelter. 



Mr. Tell remarked that his garden was rather barren, 

 being still, as he said, wild ; but when more worked it 

 would become better, though no manure be applied. My 

 men were busy collecting a better breed of fowls and 

 pigeons than those in their own country. Mr. Tell pre- 

 sented them with some large specimens from Rio Janeiro. 

 Of these they were wonderfully proud, and bore the cock 

 in triumph through the country of the Balonda, as evidence 

 of having been to the sea. But when at the village of 

 Shinte a hyena came into our midst when we were all 

 sound asleep, and picked out the giant in his basket from 

 eighty -four others, and he was lost, to the great grief of 

 my men. The anxiety these people have always shown to 

 improve the breed of their domestic animals is, I think, a 

 favorable point in their character. , 



On coming back to Cypriano's village on the 28th, we 

 found his step-father had died after we had passed, and, 

 according to the custom of the country, he had spent moro 



