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Portuguese had asserted their rights to the Reino 
do Congo, extending between the great stream of 
that name and the Ambriz, also called the Loge 
and Doce River. In the older maps—for instance, 
Lopes de Lima—the Loge is an independent stream 
placed north of the Ambriz River ; in fact, it re¬ 
presents the Rue or Lue River of Kinsembo, which 
is unknown to our charts. Within the Doce and 
the Cuanza lies the Reino de Angola, of which, 
they say, the Congo was a dependency, and south 
of the Cuanza begins the Reino de Benguela. The 
Government-General of Loanda thus contained 
four provinces—Congo (now reduced to Ambriz), 
Angola, Benguela, and Mossamedes. The English 
government has now agreed to recognize the 
left or southern bank of the Ambriz as the 
northern frontier of Angola and of Portuguese 
rule. 
Passing the river mouth, we were alongside of 
independent lands, and new to us. Boobies ( Pele- 
canus sula), gulls, petrels, and men-of-war birds 
[P . aquila ), flew about the ship; according to 
the experts, they were bound for fetid marshes 
which outlie the Loge River. Before nightfall we 
were off the Lue or Rue River of Kinsembo, which 
disputes with Landana (not “Landano” 1 ) the 
palm of bad landing. At this season boats are 
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