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Sometimes, though not often, they have a few marks on each 
temple. 
The Angola and the Kasanji are considered in Rio as of different 
nations, but their languages are the same, with hardly a dialectical 
difference, and is extremely soft in pronunciation. Some of the na- 
tives found great difficulty in enunciating sounds of the Portuguese, 
saying balaba for barba, cibali for cidade. Though the Angola and 
Kasanji spoke the same language, yet there was a considerable dif- 
ference between the dialects of two Angolas, the one from Loando on 
the coast, the other from M'baka, or Ambacca, about three hundred 
miles in the interior. 
From the best information, it is believed that the only distinction 
between them is, that the Angolas are under the domination of the 
Portuguese government, and the Kasanji are the free natives of the 
interior. 
The former inhabit a narrow province, from sixty to eighty miles 
in width, between the two rivers Dande and Coanza, and extending 
inland something more than one hundred leagues, or as far as the 
Portuguese power can make itself felt; the latter, commencing at this 
point, are spread over a large territory in the interior of the continent. 
One of the natives stated the time it took to go from Loando (the 
Portuguese seaport) to Kasanji to be three months, and to return, 
two ; the former journey, as far as it was made in boats, being against 
the stream. 
The eastern coast of Africa, from the equator to the Hottentots of 
