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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
£3500 sterling ! It is not uncommon to fall in with a 
Portuguese white at the Bihe, who has escaped from the 
prisons on the coast, acting as secretary to some wealthy 
negro trader. 
Where travelling is concerned as connected with 
trade, nothing comes amiss to the Bihenos, who seem 
ready for anything. If they only had the power of 
telling where they had been and describing what they 
had seen, the geographers of Europe would not have 
BIHENO CARRIER ON THE MARCH. 
occasion to leave blank great part of the map of South 
Central Africa. The Bilieno quits his home with the 
utmost indifference, and bearing a load of sixty-six 
pounds of goods will start for the interior, where he 
will remain two, three and four years ; and on his 
return, after that lapse of time, will be received just as 
though he had been on a journey of as many days. 
Silva Porto, whilst engaged in doing business with 
the Zambesi, was despatching his negroes in other 
directions, and was trading at the same time in the 
