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the Government of Angola to allow their subjects to pene- 
trate farther into tho interior. The present would have 
boon a good opportunity for mo to have visited that chief, 
Q nd I folt strongly inclined to do so, as ho had expressed 
dissatisfaction respecting my treatment by the Ohiboquo, 
and oven threatened to punish them. As it would bo im 
proper to force my men to go thither, L resolved to wait 
and see whether tho proposition might not cmanato from 
themselves. When 1 can get tho natives to agreo in tho 
propriety of any step, they go to tho end of tho affair 
without a murmur. I speak to them and treat them as 
rational boings, and generally get on well with them in 
consequence. 
February 20. — On tho day of starting from Cassango tho 
Westerly wind blow strongly, and on tho day following wo 
were brought to a stand by several of our party boing laid 
ll p with fovor. This complaint is tho only serious draw- 
back Angola possesses. It is in every other respect an 
a groeablo land, and admirably adapted for yielding a rich 
abundanco of tropical produeo for tho rest of the world. 
Indeed, I havo no hesitation in asserting that, had it been 
ln tho possession of England, it would now havo been 
folding as much or moro of tho raw material for hoi 
'uanufacturcs as an equal extent of territory in the cotton- 
growing States of America. A railway from Luanda to 
this valley would sccuro tho trado of most of tho intorior 
°f South Central Africa. 
As soon as wo could movo toward tho Quango wo did so, 
Meeting in our course sovcral trading-parties, both nativo 
an d Portuguese. Wo mot two of tho latter carrying a 
tusk weighing 126 lbs. Tho owner afterward informed us 
at its follow on tho loft sido of the samo elephant was 130 
9 - It was 8 foot Gi inches long, and 21 inches in circnm 
croneo at tho part on which tho lip of tho animal rests. 
, 110 elephant was rather a small ono, as is common in this 
°t central region. Some idea may bo formed of tho 
strength of his neck when it is recollected that he boro a 
