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in lawful commerce. We saw tlie female population occupied, as 
usual, in the s|)inning of cotton and cultivation of then’ lands. 
Their only instrument for culture is a double-handled hoe, which 
is worked with a sort of dragging motion. Many of the men 
were employed in weaving. The latter appear to he less indus¬ 
trious than the former, for they requu-e a month to finish a single 
web. There is, however, not much inducement to industry, for, 
notwithstanding the time consumed in its manufacture, each web 
is sold for only two shilhngs. 
On returning to Grolungo Alto, I found several of my men laid 
u]3 with fever. One of the reasons for my leaving them there 
was, that they might recover from the fatigue of the journey from 
Loanda, wliich had much more effect upon their feet than hun¬ 
dreds of miles had on om* way westwards. They had always been 
accustomed to moisture in their own well-watered land, and we 
certainly had a superabundance of that in Loanda. The roads, 
however, from Loanda to Golungo Alto were both hard and dry, 
and they suffered severely in consequence; yet they were com¬ 
posing songs to be smig when they should reach home. The 
Argonauts were nothing to them; and they remarked very im¬ 
pressively to me, It was well you came with Makololo, for no 
tribe could have done what we have accomplished in coming to 
the white man’s country : we are the true ancients who can tell 
wonderful things.” Two of them now had fever in the continued 
form, and became jaundiced, the whites or conjunctival membrane 
