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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
the blacks in Hambundo distinguish by the names of 
ongue and omeme. The ongue has thick, short hair, 
and the omeme, though furnished with much longer 
hair, has no pretence to wool. These animals, of exotic 
race, degenerate most decidedly from the effects of 
climate and pasture. The Bihenos have goats of a 
very inferior race, and their horned cattle are small and 
of poor and weakly breed. Poultry abounds, but, 
similar to all the domestic animals of the country, the 
birds are small of body. 
Major Pinto’s narrative of his journey through the 
country of the Ganguellas is of special interest. 
On the 14tli of June, as I had determined, I broke up 
my camp, and at ten o’clock commenced the passage 
of the Cuanza, which took a couple of hours. 
My mackintosh boat, purchased in London, did me 
the greatest service; and I had also four canoes which 
were lent me by the Sova of Liuiea. The passage was 
effected without the slighest accident, and by noon I 
was able to continue my journey, which I did in an 
easterly direction, penetrating into the country of the 
Quimbandes. Having passed near the villages of 
Muzeu and Caiaio, 1 encamped at about two hours’ 
journey E. S. E. of the village near the source of the 
Mutanga rivulet, which runs N. W. into the Cuanza. 
I noticed that the villages in these parts were not nearly 
so strongly fortified as those on the other side of the 
Cuanza. The Quimbandes form a confederation, their 
country being divided into small states which always 
combine for the common protection. The whole of the 
numerous villages around my camp were under the 
sway of the Sova Mavanda, who is himself a tributary 
of the Sova of Cuio or Mucuzo, situated on the banks 
of the Cuanza but more to the northward. The sight 
which first struck my attention among the Quimbandes 
was the head-dresses of the women, the most extra¬ 
ordinary I ever beheld in my life. Some arrange the 
hair in such a way that—after it is embellished with 
cowries—it looks for all the world like an European 
woman’s bonnet. Others friz it out, and twist and 
