MEETING WITH NATIVE TRADERS. 
28. 
Make their huts of coffee-trees. The rivers Dando, Senna, 
and Lucalla are said to rise in one mountain-range 
Numerous tribes inhabit the country to tho north, who are 
all independent. The Portuguese power extends chiofly 
over the tribes through whoso lands we have passed It 
taay be said to bo firmly seated only between tho rivore 
Dando and Coanza. It extends inland about three hun- 
dred miles to the river Quango; and tho population, 
according to the imporfoct data affordod by the census 
given annually by tho commandants of tho fifteon or six- 
teen districts into which it is divided, cannot bo under 
600,000 souls. 
Loaving Malange, wo passed quickly, without deviation, 
along the path by which we had como. At Sanza (lat. 9° 
37' 46" S., long. 16° 59' B.) wo expected to got a littlo seed- 
wheat, but this was not now to be found in Angola. 
While at Tala Mungongo, wo met a native of Biho who 
oas visited tho country of Shinto three times for the pur 
poses of trade. Ho gavo us some of the nows of that dis- 
tant part, but not a word of tho Makololo, who have always 
been represented in tho countries to tho north as a despo- 
rately-savagc race, whom no trader could visit with safety. 
Tho half-caste tradors whom wo mot at Shinto’s had re- 
turned to Angola with sixty-six slaves and upward of fifty 
tusks of ivory. As wo came along tho path, wo daily mot 
long lines of carriers bearing largo square masses of bees’- 
Wax, each about a hundred pounds’ weight, and numbers 
of elephants’ tusks, tho property of Angolese merchants. 
Many natives wero proceeding to tho coast also on their 
°wn account, carrying beos’-wax, ivory, and sweet oil. 
l’hoy appeared to travel in perfect security; and at differ- 
° n t parts of tho road wo purchased fowls from them at a 
Penny each. My men took care to cclcDrato their own 
daring in having actually entered ships, wliilo tho natives 
°f thoso parts, who had endeavored to frighten them on 
their way down, had only seen them at a distanco. Poor 
fellows ! they wero more than ever attentive to me ; and 
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