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The Festival. 
of which La Grundy so highly approves. An 
honest man, who does not hold to the British idea 
that “gettingon in the world” is Nature’s first law, 
would be sorely puzzled by such a career. 
The day after my arrival was the festival which 
gives to Sao Paulo de Loanda its ecclesiastical 
name “ da Assump^ao.” The ceremonies of the 
day were duly set forth in the Boletim Official do 
Governo Geral da Provincia de Angola. A military 
salute and peals of bells aroused us at dawn ; fol¬ 
lowed a review of the troops, white and black ; and a 
devout procession, flags flying and bands playing, 
paced through the chief streets to the Cathedral. 
A visit of ceremony in uniform to the Governor- 
General, Captain Jose Baptista de Andrade, a his¬ 
toric name in Angola, led to an invitation for the 
evening, a pleasant soiree of both sexes. The 
reception was cordial : whatever be the griev¬ 
ances of statesmen and historians, lawyers and 
slave-mongers, Portuguese officers are always most 
friendly to their English brethren. The large 
and airy rooms were hung with portraits of the 
several dignitaries, and there was an Old World 
look about Government House, like the Pa$o at 
Pangim (Goa). Fifty years ago colonial society 
was almost entirely masculine; if you ever met a 
white woman it was in a well-curtained manchila 
surrounded by “ mucambas ” or “ mucacamas, 
negro waiting maids : ” as the old missioner tells 
