Chap. XXII. 
MODE OF ADDEESSma SLAVES. 
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Tlie country was generally covered with forest, and we slept 
every night at some village. I was so weak, and had become so 
deaf from the effects of the fever, that I was glad to avail myself 
of the company of Senhor Pascoal and the other native traders. 
Our rate of travelling was only two geographical miles per hour, 
and the average number of hours tliree and a half per day, or 
seven mdes. Two-thirds of the month was spent in stoppages, 
there being only ten travelling days in each month. The stop¬ 
pages were caused by sickness, and the necessity of remaining in 
different parts to purchase food; and also because, when one 
carrier was sick, the rest refused to carry his load. 
One of the Pombehos had eight good-looking women in a 
chain, whom he was taking to the country of Matiamvo to sell for 
ivory. They always looked ashamed when I happened to come 
near them, and must have felt keenly their forlorn and degraded 
position. I beheve they were captives taken from the rebel 
Cassanges. The way in wliich slaves are spoken of in Angola 
and eastern Africa, must sound strangely even to the owners, when 
they first come from Europe. In Angola the common appellation 
is o diabo,” or “ brutuand it is quite usual to hear gentlemen 
call out O diabo! bring fire.” In eastern Africa, on the con¬ 
trary, they apply the term ‘‘ bicho ” (an animal), and you hear 
the phrase, Call the animal to do this or that.” In fact, slave¬ 
owners come to regard their slaves as not human, and will cm’se 
them as the race of a dog.” Most of the carriers of my travel- 
hng companions were hired Basongo, and requhed constant vigi¬ 
lance to prevent them stealing the goods they carried. Salt, which 
is one of the cliief articles conveyed into the country, became 
considerably hghter as we went along, but the carriers sliielded 
themselves, by saying that it had been melted by the rain. Their 
burdens were taken from them every evening, and placed in 
security under the guardianship of Senhor Pascoal’s own slaves. 
It was pitiable to observe the worrying hfe he led. There was 
the gTeatest contrast possible between the conduct of his people, 
and that of my faithful Makololo. 
We crossed the Loange, a deep but narrow stream, by a bridge. 
It becomes much larger, and contains hippopotami, lower down. 
It is the boundary of Londa on the west. We slept also on the 
banks of the Pezo, now flooded, and could not but admire their 
