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rtout) couches, wore better than tho ground under the 
rotten fragments of my gypsy-tont, for wo had still showers 
occasionally, and tho dews woro veiy hoavy. I continued 
to use them for the sake of the shelter they afforded, until 
I found that thoy woro lodgings also for certain inconve- 
nient bedfellows. 
27 th . — Five horns’ rido through a ploasant country of 
lorest and meadow, liko those of Londa, brought us to a 
village of Basongo, a tribe living in subjection to the Por- 
tuguese. Wo crossod several little streams, which were 
flowing in the westerly direction in which we woro march- 
ing, and unite to form tho Quizo, a feeder of tho Coanza. 
The Basongo woro very civil, as indeed all the tribes wore 
who had been conquered by the Portuguese. The Basongo 
and Bangala uro yet only partially subdued. Tho farther 
west wo go from this the less independent we find tho 
hlaek population, until wo reach tho vicinity of Loanda, 
where the free natives are nearly identical in their feelings 
toward tho Government with the slaves. But the go- 
vernors of Angola wisely accept the limited allegianco and 
tribute rendered by tho more distant tribes as better than 
none. 
Wo spent Sunday, tho 30th of April, at Hgio, close to 
the ford of tho Quizo as it crosses our path to fall into tho 
Coanza. The country becomes more opeD, but is still 
abundantly fertile, with a thick crop of grass between two 
nod throo feet high. It is also well wooded and watered. 
Villages of Basongo aro dotted over tho landscape, and 
frequently a squaro houso of wattlo and daub, belonging to 
native Portuguese, is placed beside them for tho purposes 
PitBane and another of the men had violent attacks of 
fever, and it was no wonder; for tho dampness and evapo- 
^'on from tho ground was excessive. When at any time 
^ attempted to got an observation of a star, if tho trough 
Jt mercury were placed on the ground, so much moisture 
was condensed on tho inside of the glass roof over it that. 
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