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lat 16° 9' 3" S., long. 33° 28' E.) My companions thought 
that wo woro captured by tho armed men, and called me 
in alarm. When I understood tho errand on which they had 
como, and nad part, anon of a good breakfast, though I had 
just boforo been too tired to sloop, all my fatigue vanishod. 
It was the most refreshing breakfhst I evor partook cf, 
and I walked tho last eight miles without tho least fooling 
of weariness, although tho path was so rough that ono of 
tho officers remarked to me, “This is enough to tear t. 
man’s life out of him.” Tho pleasure experienced in par- 
taking of that breakfast was only cquallod by tho enjoy- 
ment of Mr. Gabriel’s bed on my arrival at Loanda. It 
was also enhanced by tho news that Sebastopol had fallon 
and tho war was finished. 
CHAPTER XXXI. 
DU. DIVING STONE’S RESIDENCE AT TETE. 
I was most kindly received by tho commandant, Tito 
Augusto d’ Araujo Sicard, who did every thing in his power 
to restore mo from my emaciated condition ; and, as this 
was still tho unhealthy period at Kilimano, ho advised mo 
to remain with him until the following month. Ho also 
generously presented my men with abundant provisions of 
millet; and, by giving them lodgings in a house of his own 
ontil they could erect thoir own huts, ho preserved them 
from tho bito of tho tampans, hero named Carapatos. Wo 
had heal'd frightful accounts of this insect whilo among th* 
Banyai; and Major Sicard assured mo that to strangors it* 
bito is moro especially dangerous, as it sometimes cause* 
fata 1 fever It may please our homoeopathic frionds to hoai 
that, in curing tho bito of the tampan, tho natives admi- 
nister ono of tho insects bruised in tho medicine employed. 
Tho village of Tcto is built on a long slopo down to <u« 
