To Sdo Paulo de Loanda. 
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and tree. We then opened a deep bight, which 
has the honour of being entitled the longest in¬ 
dentation from Cape Lopez to Great Fish Bay, 
some 17 0 or a thousand miles of coast. A gap in 
the cliff line and darker vegetation showed the 
Zenza River, generally called Bengo from the dis¬ 
trict (Icolo e Bengo) which it traverses. Here 
was once a busy settlement much frequented by 
shipping, which thus escaped harbour dues. The 
mosquito-haunted stream, clear in the dries, and, 
as usual, muddy during the rains, supports wild 
duck, and, carried some ten miles in “ dongos ” or 
flat-bottomed boats, supplies the capital of Angola 
with drinking water and dysentery. 
As we glide towards the anchorage two features 
attract my attention : the Morro or hill-ridge on 
the mainland, and the narrow strip which forms 
the harbour. The escarpment, sweeping from a 
meridian to a parallel, juts westward in the bluff 
Cape Lagostas (Lobsters), a many-coloured face, 
in places not unlike the white cliffs of Dover; it 
then trends from north-east to south-west, bending 
at last in a picturesque bow, with a shallow sag. 
The material is the taud or blood-red marl of 
the Brazil, banded with white and brown, green, 
chocolate, and yellow; huge heaps of “ rotten 
earth,” washed down by the rains, cumber the 
base of the ruined sea-wall north of the town; in 
front is a pellucid sea with the usual trimmings, 
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