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FEARS OF TIIE MAKOLOLO 
roplied, “I see what you are driving at; and if you suspect 
mo you may return, for I am as ignorant of Loanda as 
you are; but nothing will happen to you but what happens 
to myself. Wo havo stood by each other hitherto, and will 
do so to the last.” The plains adjacent to Loanda are 
somowhat olovatod and comparatively storilo. On coming 
across theso we first behold the sea : my companions 
looked upon the boundless ocean with awe. On describing 
their feelings afterward, they remarked that “ wo marched 
along with our father, bolieving that what tho ancients had 
always told us was true, that tho world has no end ; but all 
at once tho world said to us, ‘ I am finished: there is no 
more of mo !’ ” They had always imagined that tho world 
was ono extended plain without limit. 
They were now somewhat apprehensive of suffering 
want, and I was unable to allay their fears with any pro- 
mise of supply, for my own mind was depressed by disease 
and care. The fever had induced a state of chronic dys- 
entery so troublesome that I could not remain on the ox 
more than ten minutes at a time; and as we came down 
the declivity above the city of Loanda on the 31st of May, 
I was laboring under great depression of spirits, as I under- 
stood that, in a population of twelve thousand souls, there 
was hut one genuine English gentleman. I naturally felt 
anxious to know whether he were possessed of good nature, 
or was one of those crusty mortals one would rather not 
meet at all. 
This gentleman, Mr. Gabriel, our commissioner for the 
suppression of the slave-trade, had kindly forwarded an invi- 
tation to meet me on the way from Cassange, but, unfortu- 
nately, it crossed me on the road. When we entered his 
porch, I was delighted to see a number of flowers cultivated 
carefully, and inferred from this circumstance that he was. 
what I soon discovered him to be, a real whole-hearted 
Englishman. 
Seeing me ill, he benevolently offered me his bed. Never 
shall I forget the luxurious pleasure I enjoyed in feeling 
