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jungle, abounded in elephants, and boasted but a few 
sparse hamlets inhabited by the Ganguella race. The 
river Cuanza, after its confluence with the Cuqueima, 
divides the Andulo country from that of the Gamba, 
which lies to the eastward. The monarch or Sova of 
the Gamba was a certain Bomba, who had a daughter of 
extreme beauty called Cahanda. This Sova Bomba 
resided on the left bank of the river Loando, an affluent 
of the Cuanza. 
It happened that the beautiful Princess Cahanda 
VIEW OF THE EXTERIOR OF THE VILLAGE OF BELMONTE IN THE BIHE. 
requested her father’s permission to visit certain relatives, 
ladies of distinction in the village of Ungundo, the 
only place of any importance in the Bihe' of those days. 
King Bomba’s daughter having gone on this visit, it also 
happened that a famous elephant hunter by the name 
of Bihe, son of the Sova of the Humbe, attended by a 
numerous suite, passed the Cunene, and in the pursuit ol 
his sport reached those remote regions. One day, this 
worthy disciple of St. Hubert being hungry, and finding 
himself near the village of Ungundo, repaired thither to 
seek materials for a meal. On this occasion he cast eyes 
upon the beautiful Cahanda, and, as a matter of course, 
