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CONTINUED SICKNESS. 
Chap, XX. 
CHAPTEE XX. 
Continued sickness — Kindness of the Bishop of Angola and her Majesty’s 
officers — Mr. Gabriel’s unwearied hospitality — Serious deportment of the 
Makololo — They visit ships of war — Politeness of the officers and men 
— The Makololo attend mass in the cathedral — Their remarks'—Find 
employment in collecting firewood and unloading coal — Their superior 
judgment respecting goods — Beneficial influence of the Bishop of Angola 
— The city of St. Paul de Luanda — The harbour — Custom-house — No 
English merchants — Sincerity of the Portuguese government in suppress¬ 
ing the slave-trade — Convict soldiers—^ Presents from bishop and mer¬ 
chants for Sekeletu — Outfit — Leave Luanda 20th September, 1854 — 
Accompanied by Mr. Gabriel as far as Icollo i Bengo — Sugar manufactory 
— Geology of this part of the country — Women spinning cotton — Its price 
■—Native weavers — Market-places — Cazengo ; its coffee-plantations—■ 
South American trees —Enins of iron-foundry — Native miners — The 
banks of the Lucalla — Cottages with stages — Tobacco-plants — Town of 
Massangano — Sugar and rice — Superior district for cotton — Portuguese 
merchants and foreign enterprise — Euins — The fort and its ancient guns 
— Former importance of Massangano — Fires — The tribe Kisama — 
Peculiar variety of domestic fowl—Coffee-plantations — Eeturn to Go- 
lungo Alto—Self-complacency of the Makololo■—Fever—Jaundice — 
Insanity. 
In the hope that a short enjoyment of Mr. Gabriel’s generous 
hospitahty would restore me to my wonted vigour, I continued 
under his roof; hut my complaint having been caused by long 
exposure to malarious influences, I became much more reduced 
than ever, even while enjoying rest. Several Portuguese gentle¬ 
men called on me shortly after my arrival; and the Bishop of 
Angola, the Eight Eeverend Joaquim Moreira Eeis, then the 
acting governor of the province, sent his secretary to do the same, 
and likewise to offer the services of the government physician. 
Some of her Majesty’s cruisers soon came into the poid, and, 
seeing the emaciated condition to which I was reduced, offered to 
convey me to St. Helena or homewards; but though I had reached 
the coast, I had found that, in consequence of the great amount 
of forest, rivers, and marsh, there was no possibility of a highway 
for waggons, and I had brought a party of Sekeletu’s people with 
