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directed to Pun go Andongo. “Do you grow wheat?” — 
“ Oh, yos, in Pungo Andongc” “ Grapes, figs, or poaches?” 
— “Oh, yes, in Pungo Andongo.” “Do you mako butter, 
cheese, &c. ?” The uniform answer was, “ Oh, yes : thore 
is abundanco of all thoso in Pungo Andongo.” But when 
wo arrived hero wo fbund that tho answors all referrod to 
the activity of one man, Colonel .Manuel Antonio Piros 
The presence of tho wild grapo shows that vinoyards might 
ho cultivated with success; tho wheat grows well without 
irrigation; and any ono who tasted tho butter and cheese 
at tho tablo of Colonel Piros would prefor them to tho 
stale produco of tho Irish dairy in general use throughout 
that provinco. Tho cattlo in this country are seldom 
milked, on account of tho strong prejudice which tho Por- 
tuguese entertain against tho uso of milk. They believe 
that it may bo used with safety in tho morning, but, if 
takon after mid-day, that it will cause fovor. It soomed 
to mo that thcro was not much reason for carefully avoid- 
ln g a few drops in their coffee after having dovourod ten 
times tho amount in tho shape of checso at dinnor. 
Tlio fort of Pungo Andongo (lat. 9° 42' 14" S., long. 15° 
30' E.) is situated in tho midst of a group of curious 
columnar-shaped rocks, each of which is upward of three 
hundred foot in height. They aro composed of conglomo- 
cato, made up of a groat variety of rounded piecos in a 
matrix of dark rod sandstone. They rest on a thick stra- 
tum of this last rock, with very fow of tho pobbles in its 
substance. On this a fossil palm has been found, and if of 
the samo ago as thoso on tho eastern sido of tho continent 
on which similar palms now lio, there may bo coal under- 
neath this, as well as under that of Tote. Tho assorted 
cxistonco of potroloum-springs at Dando, and near Cam- 
hambo, would scorn to indicato tho presence of this useful 
mineral, though I am not awaro of any ono having actually 
seen a seam of coal tilted up to tho surface in Angola, as 
we havo at Tote. Tho gigantic pillars of Pungo Anaongo 
have boon formod by a current of the sea coming from the 
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