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the Portuguese army followed them into their fores cs, they 

 reduced the invaders to extremity by tapping all the 

 reservoirs of water, which were no other than trie enormous 

 baobabs of the country, hollowed into cisterns. As the 

 Kisama country is ill supplied with water otherwise, the 

 Portuguese were soon obliged to retreat. Their country 

 lying near to Massangano is low and marshy, but becomes 

 more elevated in the distance, and beyond them He the 

 lofty, dark mountain-ranges of the Libollo, another power- 

 ful and independent people. Near Massangano I observed 

 what seemed to be an effort of nature to furnish a variety 

 of domestic fowls, more capable than the common kind, 

 of bearing the heat of the sun. This was a hen and 

 chickens, with all their feathers curled upwards ; thus 

 giving shade to the body without increasing the heat. 

 They are here named "kisafu " by the native population, 

 who pay a high price for them when they wish to offer 

 them as a sacrifice, and by the Portuguese they are termed 

 " arripiaida/' or shivering. There seems to be a tendency 

 in nature to afford varieties adapted to the convenience of 

 man. A kind of very short-legged fowl among the Boers 

 was obtained, in consequence of observing that such were 

 more easily caught for transportation, in their frequent 

 removals in search of pasture. A similar instance of 

 securing a variety, occurred with the short-limbed sheep 

 in America. 



Returning by ascending the Lucalla into Cazengo, we 

 had an opportunity of visiting several flourishing coffee 

 plantations, and observed that several men, who had 

 begun with no capital but honest industry, had in the 

 course of a few years acquired a comfortable subsistence. 

 One of these, Mr. Pinto, generously furnished me with a 

 good supply of his excellent coffee, and my men with a 

 breed of rabbits to carry to their own country. Their 

 lands, granted by Government, yielded, without much 

 labour, coffee sufficient for all the necessaries of life. 



The fact of other avenues of wealth opening up so 

 readily, seems like a providential invitation to forsake the 

 slave-trade and engage in lawful commerce. We saw the 

 female population occupied, as usual, in the spinning of 

 cotton and cultivation of their lands. Their only instru- 

 ment for culture is a double -handled hoe, which is worked 

 with a sort of dragging motion. Many of the men were 

 employed in weaving. The latter appear to be less indus- 



