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DEPARTUEE FROM PUNGO AEDONGO. Chap. XXII. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
Leave Pungo Andongo ~ Extent of Portuguese power — Meet traders and 
carriers — Red ants : their fierce attack; usefulness, numbers — Descend 
the heights of Tala Mungongo — Fruit-trees in the valley of Cassange — 
Edible muscle — Birds — Cassange village — Quinine and cathorj’- — 
Sickness of Captain Neves’ infant — A diviner thrashed —■ Death of the 
child — Mourning — Loss of life from the ordeal ^—AVide-spread super¬ 
stitions — The chieftainship -— Charms — Receive copies of the ‘ Times ’ 
~ Trading Pombeiros — Present for Matiamvo — Fever after westerly 
winds — Capabilities of Angola for producing the raw materials of English 
manufacture — Trading parties with ivory — More fever — A hya?na’s 
choice — Makololo opinion of the Portuguese — Cypriano’s debt — A 
funeral — Dread of disembodied spirits — Beautiful morning scenes—Cross¬ 
ing the Quango — Ambakistas called, “The Jews of Angola”—’Fashions 
of the Bashinje —Approach the village of Sansawe ■— His idea of dignity 
— The Pombeiros’ present — Long detention — A blow on the beard — 
Attacked in a forest — Sudden conversion of a fighting chief to peace prin¬ 
ciples by means of a revolver — No blood shed in consequence — Rate of 
travelling — Slave women — Way of addressing slaves ^—Their thievish 
propensities — Feeders of the Congo or Zaire — Obliged to refuse presents 
— Cross the Loajima — Appearance of people ; hair fashions. 
January 1, 1855.—Having, through the kindness of Colonel 
Pures, reproduced some of my lost papers, I left Pungo Andongo 
the first day of this year; and at Candumba, slept in one of the 
dairy estabhshments of my friend, who had sent forward orders 
for an ample supply of butter, cheese, and milk. Our path lay 
along the right bank of the Coanza. This is composed of the 
same sandstone rock, with pebbles, which forms the flooring of the 
country. The land is level, has much open forest, and is weU 
adapted for pasturage. 
On reaching the confluence of the Lombe, we left the river, and 
proceeded in a north-easterly direction, through a fine open green 
country, to the village of Malange, where we struck into our 
former path. A few miles to the west of this, a path branches off 
to a new district named the Duke Braganza. This path crosses 
the LucaUa, and several of its feeders. The whole of the country 
drained by these, is described as extremely fertile. The territory 
