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Mr. Gabriel at Loanda. I was always anxious to transmit 
an account of my discoveries on evory possiblo occasion, 
lest, any thing happening in the country to which I was 
going, they should be entirely lost. I also fondly cxpoctod 
a packet of letters and papers which my good angol a 
Loanda would bo sure to send if they came to hand ; but 1 
afterward found that, though ho had offered a largo sum 
to any one who would return with an assurance of having 
delivered tho last packet ho sent, no one followed mo with 
it to Cabango. Tho unwearied attentions of this good 
Englishman, from his first welcome to mo, when, a weary 
dejected, and worn-down stranger, I arrived at his resi- 
dence, and his whole subsequent conduct, will bo held in 
lively romembranco by mo to my dying day 
As wo thought it best to striko away to tho S.E. from 
Cabango to our old friend Katema, I asked a guido from 
Muanzanza. Ho agreed to furnish one, and also accepted 
a smaller present from me than usual, when it was re 
presented to him by Pascoal and Faria that I was not a 
trader. 
Wo wero forced to prepay our guido and his fathor too; 
and he went but ono day, although ho promised to go with 
as to Katema. 
Tho reason why wo needed a guido at all was to secure 
tho convenience of a path, which, though generally no 
hotter than a sheep-walk, is much easier than going 
straight in ono direction through tangled forests and 
tropical vegetation. Wo know tho general direction we 
°ught to follow, and also if any deviation occurred from 
°nr proper route; but, to avoid impassable forests and 
nntroadablo bogs, and to got to tho proper fords of the 
nv ors, we always tried to procuro a guido, and he always 
followed tho common path from ono village to anothor 
w hen that lay in tho direction wo wore going. 
After leaving Cabango, on tho 21st, wo crossed sover*l 
little streams running into tho Chihombo on our loft. 
On the 28th we reached the village of the chief Bango> 
