654 LIFE OF DA VI D LI VINGSTONE, LL.D. 



and his entire establishment is in a state of wonderful order and prosperity. 

 He has planted orange-trees, vines, roses, etc., which all grow to perfection ; 

 there are great hedges of roses, thirty feet high, covered with blossoms. He 

 is an old officer of the Portuguese navy, and a very gentlemanlike man ; 

 but he has become so completely habituated to African life, that, though he 

 had just visited Portugal, he felt he could not live there, and was obliged to 

 return to Bihe. From this settlement Cameron, proceeded to that of Senhor 

 Goao Baptista Ferreira, where he was also kindly received. Senhor Ferreira 

 has travelled far into the interior (on one occasion nearly up to Kasongo's 

 country), but being utterly uneducated, and almost solely dependent on the 

 slave trade for his profits, he cannot fail to lower the prestige of the white 

 man among the natives. Close to his settlement is that of Silva Porto, 

 famous for his journey with Syde ibn Habib half across Africa. His place 

 is now in the charge of slaves, who make frequent trips to Katanga for cop- 

 per, slaves, and ivory, whilst he himself lives in comfort at Benguela, 



After one day's halt at Ferreira's Cameron started for Benguela ; but 

 after only four days' marching, he was delayed by the illness of the wife of 

 his chief native guide, and, after all, had to leave him with her, and to go on 

 with one of his brothers. Besides the natives, he had also a black Portuguese, 

 called Manoel, from Dondo, supplied to him by Kendele, who formed a very 

 favourable contrast to that individual, as he endeavoured to assist the traveller 

 in every way in his power. They now came into the lovely and fertile country 

 of Bailunda, the chief of which Cameron visited in his village, situated on a 

 rocky hill, standing by itself in the middle of the plain. To reach the royal 

 hut, which was perched on the very summit of the hill, he had to pass 

 through no fewer than seven stockades ; besides this, the path was so steep in 

 some places, that he had a regular scramble to get up. Two or three days 

 after leaving this chief he got into a very mountainous country, and as the 

 rainy season had set in in full force, his men began to break down ; four or 

 five of them had to be carried, and one poor fellow died. The day after his 

 death, Cameron found that, in bringing up the rear of the caravan, he was 

 about nine hours doing what might easily be done in three under ordinary 

 circumstances, owing to the number of men who were unable to march, and 

 who kept halting. On his arrival in camp, he therefore made up his mind 

 to tlirow away everything he could possibly spare, and pressing on to the 

 coast, now one hundred and twenty six miles distant, with a few of the best 

 men, to send back assistance to the others. He accordingly threw away his 

 boat, the remains of his tent bed, and everything but a blanket and a change 

 of clothes. 



The next morning he went on with Manoel and six other men ; and 

 after five days' stiff marching across a very rough and mountainous country, 

 he arrived at Katombela, a suburb of Benguela. Here he was most warmly 



