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weaving. Each web is about five feet long, and fifteen oi 
eighteen inches wide. The loom is of the simplest construc- 
tion, being nothing but two beams placed one over the other, 
the web standing perpendicularly. The threads of the web 
are separated by means of a thin woodon lath, and the 
woof passed through by means of the spindle on which it 
has ooen wound in spinning. 
Numbers of other articles are brought for sale to these 
sleeping-places. The native smiths there carry on their 
trade. I bought ten very good table-knives, made ol 
country iron, for twopence each. 
Labor is extremely cheap, for I was assurod that even 
carpenters, masons, smiths, &c. might bo hired for four- 
pence a day; and agriculturists would gladly work for half 
that sum. 
Being anxious to obtain some moro knowledge of this in- 
teresting country and its ancient missionary-establishments 
than the line of routp by which we had come afforded, 1 
resolved to visit the town of Massangano, which is situated 
to the south of Golungo Alto and at the confluence of tho 
rivers Lucalla and Coanza. This led mo to pass through 
the district of Cazongo, which is rathor famous for tho 
abundance and excellence of its coffeo. Extensive coflfoo- 
plantations were found to exist on tho sides of tho seve- 
ral lofty mountains that compose this district. They wore 
not planted by the Portuguese. The Jesuit and other mis- 
sionaries are known to have brought somo of tho fino old 
Mocha seed, and these have propagated themselves far and 
wide : hence tho excellence of the Angola coffee. Some 
have asserted that, as now plantations were constantly dis 
covered even during the period of our visit, tho coffco-trot 
was indigonous; but tho fact that pineapples, bananas, 
yams, orange-trees, custard-apple-trees, pitangas, guavas, 
and other South American trees wore found by mo in tho 
same localities with the recently-discovered coffeo would 
seem to indicato that all foreign trees must havo been 
introduced by the same agency. It is known that the 
