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PLANTS AND TREES FROM ANGOLA. Chap. XXIV. 
man^ who had offended the Balonda by taking honey from a hive 
which did not belong to him, Kolimbota had got wounded by a 
shot in the thigh; but that he had cured the wound, given liim a 
wife, and sent a present of cloth to Sekeletu, with a full account 
of the whole affair. From the statement of Shinte, we found that 
Kolimbota had learned, before we left his town, that the way we 
intended to take was so dangerous, that it would be better for him 
to leave us to our fate; and as he had taken one of our canoes 
with him, it seemed evident that he did not expect us to return. 
Sliinte, however, sent a recommendation to his sister Nyamoana, 
to furnish as many canoes as we should need for oiu descent of 
the Leeba and Leeambye. 
As I had been desirous of introducing some of the fruit-trees 
of Angola, both for my own sake and that of the inhabitants, we 
had carried a pot containing a little plantation of orange, cashew 
trees, custard-apple trees {anona), and a fig-tree, with coffee, aragas 
i^Araga pomifera), and papaws ( Carica papaya). Fearing that, if 
we took them further south at present, they might be killed by 
the cold, we planted them out in an enclosm^e of one of Sliinte’s 
principal men, and, at his request, promised to give Shinte a share 
when grown. They know the value of fruits, but at present have 
none except wild ones. A wild fruit we frequently met with in 
Londa is eatable, and when boiled yields a large quantity of 
oil, wliich is much used in anointing both head and body. He 
eagerly accepted some of the seeds of the palm-oil tree (Ulois 
Chtineensis), when told that tins would produce oil in much 
greater quantity than their native tree, wliich is not a palm. 
There are very few palm-trees in tliis country, but near Bango 
we saw a few of a peculiar palm, the ends of the leaf-stalks of 
wliich, remain attached to the trunk, giving it a triangular shape. 
It is pleasant to observe that aU the tribes in Central Africa 
are fond of agriculture. My men had collected quantities of 
seeds in Angola, and now distributed them amongst their friends. 
Some even carried onions, garhc, and bfrd’s-eye pepper, growing 
in panmkins. The courts of the Balonda, planted with tobacco, 
sugar-cane, and plants used as rehshes, led me to the belief, that 
care would be taken of my little nursery. 
The thermometer early in the mornings ranged from 42° to 
52°, at noon 94° to 96°, and in the evening about 70°. It was 
