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open ; that it would be easy to strike the Coango 
(Quango) before it joins the Congo River, and 
that 150 miles, which we may perhaps reduce by 
a third, would lodge the traveller in the unknown 
lands of “ Hnga.” 
Bidding kindly adieu to Mr. Hunter and wish¬ 
ing him speedy deliverance from his dreadful 
companion, we resumed our travel over the now 
tranquil main. Always to starboard remained the 
narrow sea-wall, a length without breadth which 
we had seen after the lowlands of Cape Lopez, 
coloured rosy, rusty-red, or white, and sometimes 
backed by a second sierra of low blue rises, which 
suggests the sanatorium. Forty miles showed us 
the tall trees of Point Palmas on the northern side 
of the Conza River ; on the south of the gap-like 
mouth lies the Ambrizette settlement, with large 
factories, Portuguese and American, gleaming 
against the dark verdure, and with Conza Hill 
for a background. The Cabeca de Cobra, or 
“ Margate Head,” led to Makula, alias Mangal, 
or Mangue Grande, lately a clump of trees and 
a point; now the site of English, American, and 
Dutch factories. Here the hydrographic charts 
of 1827 and 1863 greatly vary, and one has 
countermarched the coast-line some 75 miles : 
Beginning with the Congo River, it lays down 
Mangue Pegueno (where Grande should be), 
Cobra, and Mangue Grande (for Pequeno) close to 
