GUIDES PKEPAID. 
L73n 
cm 
C;4' Chap. XIX. 
355 
CHAPTEE XIX. 
Guides prepaid — Bark canoes — Deserted by guides — Mistakes respecting tiie 
Coanza— Feelings of freed slaves ~ Gardens and villages — Native traders 
— A grave—Valley of the Quango — Bamboo —White larvae used as 
food — Bashinje insolence— A loosing question —The chief Sansawe — 
His hostility — Pass him safely — The river Quango — Chief’s mode of 
^ dressing his hair — Opposition — Opportune aid by Cypriano — His gene¬ 
rous hospitality — Ability of half-castes to read and write ■— Books and 
images — Marauding party burned in the grass — Arrive at Cassange — A 
good supper — Kindness of Captain Neves — Portuguese curiosity and 
questions — Anniversary of the Resurrection — No prejudice against colour 
— Country around Cassange — Sell Sekeletu’s ivory — Makololo’s surprise 
at the high price obtained.,— Proposal to return home, and reasons — Sol¬ 
dier-guide — Hill Kasala — Tala Mungongo, village of — Civility of Ba- 
songo —■ True negroes — A field of wheat — Carriers — Sleeping-places — 
Fever —Enter district of Ambaca^— Good fruits of Jesuit teaching — The 
tampan; its bite — Universal hospitality of the Portuguese — A tale of 
the Mambari — Exhilarating effects of highland scenery — District of 
Golungo Alto — Want of good roads — Fertility — Forests of gigantic 
timber — Native carpenters — Coffee estate — Sterility of country near the 
coast — Mosquitoes — Fears of the Makololo — Welcome by Mr. Gabriel 
to Loanda. 
24^4.—loNGA Panza’s sons agreed to act as guides into tlie 
territory of the Portuguese if I would give them the shell given 
by Shinte. I was strongly averse to this, and especially to give 
it beforehand; but yielded to the entreaty of my people to 
appear as if showing confidence in these hopeful youths. They 
urged that they wished to leave the shell with their wives, as a 
sort of payment to them for enduring their husbands’ absence 
so long. Having delivered the precious shell, we went west- 
by-north to the river Cliikapa, which here (lat. 10° 22' S.) is 
forty or fifty yards wide, and at present was deep; it was seen 
flowing over a rocky broken cataract with great noise about 
half a mile above our ford. We were ferried over in a canoe, 
made out of a single piece of bark sewed together at the ends, 
and having sticks placed in it at different parts to act as ribs. 
The word Chikapa means bark or skin; and as this is the only 
river in which we saw this kind of canoe used, and we heard 
2 A 2 
