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28 th . — We spent Sunday on the banks of the Quilo or 
Kweelo, here a stream of about ton yards wide. It runs 
® a deep glen, the sides of which are almost five hundred 
yards of slope, and rocky, the rocks boing hardened cal- 
careous tufa lying on clay shale and sandstone below, with 
a capping of ferruginous conglomerate The scenery would 
have been very pleasing, but fever took away much of the 
joy of life, and severe daily intermittents rendered me very 
weak and always glad to recline. 
In continuing our W.H.W. course, we met many parties 
of native traders, each carrying some pieces of cloth and 
salt, with a few heads to barter for bees’-wax. They are 
all armed with Portuguese guns, and have cartridges with 
iron balls. When wo meet, we usually stand a few minutes 
They present a little salt, and wo give a bit of ox-hide, or 
some other trifle, and then part with mutual good wishes. 
The hide of the oxen we slaughtered had been a valuable 
addition to our resources, for we found it in so great repute 
for girdles all through Loanda that we cut up every skin 
into strips about two inches broad, and sold them for meal 
and manioc as wo went along. As we came nearer Angola 
we found them of less value, as the people there possess 
cattle themselves. 
The village on tho Kweelo, at which wo spent Sunday, 
was that of a civil, lively old man, called Sakandala, who 
offered no objections to our progress. We found we should 
soon enter on the territory of the Bashinje, (Chinge of the 
Portuguese,) who are mixed with another tribe, named 
Baugala, which have been at war with the Babindelo or 
Portuguese. Bains and fever, as usual, helped to impede 
our progress until wo were put on the path which leads 
ft'om Cassange and Biho to Matiamvo by a head-man 
named Kamboela. This was a well-beaten footpath, and 
soon after entering upon it we met a party of half-caste 
traders from Biho, who confirmed the information we had 
already got of this path leading straight to Cassange, 
through which they had come on their way from Bihe to 
