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CHAPTEK XXIII. 
OB. UVINaSTONE VISITS THE COUNTRY OR THE BAI.ONDA. 
We mado a little dotoirr to the southward, in order to 
got provisions in a cheaper market. This led us along the 
rivulet callod Tamba, where wo found the people, who had 
not boon visited so frequently by the slave-traders as the 
rest, rather timid and very civil. 
Wo reached tho river Moamba (lat. 9° 38' S., long. 20° 
13' 34" E.) on tho 7th May. This is a stroam of thirty 
yards wide, and, like tho Quilo, Loange, Chikapa, and 
Loajima, contains both alligators and hippopotami. We 
crossod it by means of canoes. 
Wo crossed two small streams, tho Kanesi and Fombeji, 
boforo reaching Cabango, a villago situated on tho banks 
of tho Chihombo. The country was becoming moro 
donsoly pooplcd as wo proceeded, but it bears no popula- 
tion compared to what it might easily sustain. 
Cabango (lat. 9° 31' S., long. 20° 31' or 32' E.) is the 
dwolling-placo of Muanzanza, ono of Matiamvo’s subor- 
dinate chiefs. His villago consists of about two hundred 
huts and ten or twelve square houses, constructed of 
poles with grass intorwoven. Tho lattor are occupied 
by half-caste Portuguese from Ambaca, agents for tho 
Cassange traders. The cold in the mornings was now 
severo to the feelings, tho thermometer ranging from 58° 
to G0°, though, whon protected, sometimes standing as 
high as 64° at six a.m. When tho sun is well up, the 
thermometer in tho shado rises to 80°, and in tho ovon 
ings it is about 78°. 
Having mot with an accident to ono of my eyes by a 
blow from a branch in passing through a forest, I remainod 
somo days hero, endeavoring, though with much pain, to 
draw a sketch of the country thus far, to be sent back to 
