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PORTUGUESE TERRITORY. — EUROPEAN INFLUENCE. 
July 4th. — Spent four hours in crossing the Quanza river j such 
confusion I never saw — every one rushing into the water to get 
his own load into the boats. I stood up to the waist in water, 
with a big stick, to prevent the men from overloading the long 
canoes. Ultimately all got over safely, and camped at Yapepa, 
close by the Kukema river. 
^tk. — Crossed in boats, and after a long day's journey lodged 
at Chikoma's town, the same who found Cameron far in the 
interior in very destitute circumstances, and brought him out to 
Bihe, whence he reached Benguella. 
I am now in Bihe territory, and mark a decided change for the 
better in the outward appearance of everything. Every one is 
well dressed ; the men wear hats and coats and a rather long cloth 
kilt ; the women wrap themselves in cotton cloth from the arm- 
pits downwards ; bright, grotesque patterns being the rage amongst 
them. Their houses are square and well built, with hinged doors 
and native-made iron locks; all, of course, in imitation of the 
Portuguese. Their gardens are large, well-tilled, and neatly 
furrowed, quite like our fields at home. But they are sadly 
given to drink and immorality, it being an undeniable fact that 
those tribes which live near Europeans, and imitate them, are 
more depraved in their manners than the tribes of the interior. 
i^th. — We safely reached Belmonte, Senhor Porto's residence 
in Bihe, and he kindly entertained me. Bihe is the name 
of a district, which is thickly peopled. To-day we went to see 
the king of these parts, a man about sixty years of age, who looks 
all fat and good-humour; he is lodged in the centre of a large 
town, quite a city. Senhor Porto said that we were fortunate in 
finding him sober, as his normal condition is much the reverse. 
DISASTROUS NEWS OF AMERICAN MISSION AT BAILUNDU. 
July 16th — Bad news has come from Bailundu, to the effect 
that the American missionaries have been robbed and turned 
out of house and home. 
igth. — Men who were sent to Bailundu informed us, on their 
return, that they found the missionaries' houses in the hands of the 
natives, but where the missionaries had gone, or what had become 
