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proportion that his people boar to the entire population of 
tho district. For this accommodation the trader must pay 
a tax to the Government of one thousand reis, or about 
three shillings, per load carried. Tho trader is obliged to 
pay the carrier also tho sum of fifty reis, or about two- 
pence a day, for his sustenance. And, as a day’s journey 
18 never more than from eight to ten miles, tho expense 
which must be incurred for this compulsory labor is felt to 
bo heavy' by thoso who were accustomed to employ slave- 
labor alone. Yet no effort has been made to form a great 
bine of road for wheel-carriages. Tho first great want of » 
country- has not been attended to, and no development of 
!ts vast resources has taken place. Tho fact, however, of 
a change from one system of carriago to another, taken in 
connection with tho great depreciation in tho price of 
slaves near this coast, proves tho effectiveness of our efforts 
at repressing tho slavc-trado on the ocean. 
J-ho latitude of Golungo Alto, as observed at tho ro- 
sidonco of the commandant, was 9° 8' 30" S., longitude 
15 3 2' E. A fow days’ rest with this excellent young man 
enabled mo to regain much of my strength, and I could 
look with pleasure on the luxuriant scenery boforo his 
door. Wo were quite shut in among green hills, many of 
which were cultivated up to their tops with manioc, coffee, 
cotton, groundnuts, bananas, pineapples, guavas, papaws, 
custard-apples, pitangas, and jambos, — fruits brought from 
South America by tho former missionaries. 
Wo left Golungo Altc on tho 24th of May, — tho winter 
ln those pax-ts. Every ovoning clouds como rolling in 
groat masses over tho mountains in tho west, and pealing 
thunder accompanies tho fall of rain during tho night ox 
early in tho morning. Tho clouds generally x'omain on the 
hills till the morning is well spent, so that we bocomo fami- 
liar with tho morning mists, — a thing wo never once saw 
**t Kolobong. Tho thermometer stands at 80° by day, but 
sinks as low as 76° by night. 
do going westward wo crossed several fine little gushing 
