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To Sao Paulo de Loanda. 
other nations, buy and sell, and do all things which 
the men ought to do, whilst their husbands stay at 
home and spin or weave cotton, or busy themselves 
in such other effeminate actions.” This is not 
wholly true in ’63. The “ munengana,” or ma- 
chila-man, is active in offering his light cane 
palanquin, and he chaffs the “ mean white ” who is 
compelled to walk, bitterly as did the sedan-chair¬ 
men of Bath before the days of Beau Nash. Of 
course the Quitandeira, or market-woman, holds 
her own. The rest of the street population seems 
to consist of negro “ infantry ” and black Portu¬ 
guese pigs, gaunt and long-legged. The favourite 
passe-temps is to lie prone in sun or shade, chatter¬ 
ing and smoking the cachimbo, a heavy clay pipe, 
with peculiar stem—“ to sleep supine,” say the 
Arabs, “ is the position of saints; on the dexter 
side, of kings ; on the sinister, of learned men ; 
and on the belly, of devils.” 
