476 MORE FEVER. 



small one, as is common in this hot central region. Some idea 

 may be formed of the strength of his neck when it is recollected 

 that he bore a weight of 256 lbs. The ivory which comes from 

 the east and northeast of Cassange is very much larger than any 

 to be found further south. Captain Neves had one weighing 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 conse- 

 quence. If malarious matter existed in water, it would have been 

 a wonder had we escaped ; for, traveling in the sun, with the ther- 

 mometer from 96° to 98° in the shade, the evaporation from our 

 bodies causing much thirst, we generally partook of every 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 collect- 

 ing a better breed of fowls and pigeons than those in their own 

 country. Mr. Tell presented them with some large specimens 

 from Eio 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 hyaena 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 looking at the common breeds in the posses- 

 sion of the Portuguese, which are merely native cattle, and seeing 

 them slaughter both heifer-calves and cows, which they them- 

 selves never do, and likewise making no use of the milk, they 

 concluded that the Portuguese must be an inferior race of white 

 men. They never ceased remarking on the fine ground for gar- 

 dens over which we were passing ; and when I happened to men- 



