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THE QUANGO AGAIN. 



this curse of the world must ever find its way, sowing in every 

 new-found land the seeds of a second degradation, deeper, if 

 possible, and more hopeless than that of utter ignorance and 

 superstition. While the anxious laborer thought on this evil 

 and all the ills of Africa, and cast his thoughts back over the 

 strange condition of Angola under Portuguese rule, he stood 

 again by the banks of the Quango, arranging to enter the terri- 

 tory of the Bashange, who had learned only covetousness and 

 treachery from their white neighbors. 



MOLE CRICKET. 



