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IMPROVED HEALTH : THE REASON 
travelling. In Londa wo bravod tho rain, and, as I despised 
being carried in our frequont passage through running 
water. I was pretty constantly drcnchod; but now, when 
wo saw a storm coming, wo invariably halted. Tho mon 
soon pulled grass sufficient to mako a little shelter foi 
themselves by placing it on a bush, and, having got my 
- amp-stool and umbrella, with a little grass under my foot, 
1 kept myself perfectly dry. Wo also lightod largo fires 
and the men were not chilled by streams of water running 
down their persons and abstracting tho heat, as thoy would 
havo been had they beon exposed to tho rain. When it 
was over thoy warmed themselves by tho fires, and wo 
travelled on comfortably. Tho offoct of this care was that 
wo had much loss sickness than with a smaller party >® 
journeying to Loanda. Another improvement made from 
my experience was avoiding an entire change of diet. I* 1 
going to Loanda I took littlo or no European food, in ordor 
not to burden my mon and mako thorn lose spirit, but 
trusted entirely to what might bo got by tho gun and the 
liberality of tho Halonda ; but on this journoy I took some 
flour which had boon left in tho wagon, with some got on 
tho island, and baked my own bread all tho way in an ex- 
temporaneous ovon mado by an inverted pot. W th those 
precautions, aided, uo doubt, by- tho greater healthiness 
of tho district over which wo passed, I enjoyed perfoct 
health. 
When wo loft thoChipongo on tho 30th, wo passed among 
tho range of hills on our left, which are composed of mi® 9 
and clay slate. At tho bottom wo found a forest of la r £ e 
sibcifiod trees, all lying as if the elevation of tho rango bad 
mado them fall away from it and toward tho rivor. Tb« 
numbors of largo gamo wore quite astonishing. I n ° vcr 
saw elephants so tamo as those near the Chipongn : 
stood closo to our path without being tho least afr® 11 
This is different from thoir conduct where they have boo® 
accustomed to guns, for there they take alarm at tho 
t&tieo of a mile, and begin to run if a shot is fired even 
