CHAPTER IV. 
THE CRUISE ALONG SHORE—THE GRANITE 
PILLAR OF KINSEMBO. 
N August 22nd we left Loanda, and 
attacked the 180 miles separating it 
from the Congo mouth. Steaming 
along shore we enjoyed the vanishing 
perspective of the escarpment disappearing in the 
misty distance. The rivers Bengo, Dande, and 
Onze are denoted by densely wooded fissures 
breaking the natural sea-wall, and, as usual in 
West Africa, these lines are the favourite sites for 
settlements. The Onze or the Lifune of Mazula 
Bay—which the Hydrographic Chart (republished 
March 18, 1869) changes into “ River Mazulo,” 
and makes the mouth of the “ River Onzo ”—is 
chosen by Bowdich and writers of his day as the 
northern boundary of Angola, greatly to the dis¬ 
gust of the Portuguese, whose pretensions extend 
much farther north. Volumes of daily smoke and 
