A similar instance of securing a variety occurred
with the short-limbed sheep in America.

Returning by ascending the Lucalla into Cazengo, we had an opportunity
of visiting several flourishing coffee plantations, and observed that
several men, who had begun with no capital but honest industry, had, in
the course of a few years, acquired a comfortable subsistence. One of
these, Mr. Pinto, generously furnished me with a good supply of his
excellent coffee, and my men with a breed of rabbits to carry to their
own country. Their lands, granted by government, yielded, without much
labor, coffee sufficient for all the necessaries of life.

The fact of other avenues of wealth opening up so readily seems like a
providential invitation to forsake the slave-trade and engage in lawful
commerce. We saw the female population occupied, as usual, in the
spinning of cotton and cultivation of their lands. Their only instrument
for culture is a double-handled hoe, which is worked with a sort of
dragging motion. Many of the men were employed in weaving. The latter
appear to be less industrious than the former, for they require a
month to finish a single web. There is, however, not much inducement
to industry, for, notwithstanding the time consumed in its manufacture,
each web is sold for only two shillings.

On returning to Golungo Alto I found several of my men laid up with
fever. One of the reasons for my leaving them there was that they might
recover from the fatigue of the journey from Loanda, which had much more
effect upon their feet than hundreds of miles had on our way westward.
They had always been accustomed to moisture in their own well-watered
land, and we certainly had a superabundance of that in Loanda. The
roads, however, from Loanda to Golungo Alto were both hard and dry, and
they suffered severely in consequence; yet they were composing songs to
be sung when they should reach home. The Argonauts were nothing to them;
and they remarked very impressively to me, "It was well you came with
Makololo, for no tribe could have done what we have accomplished in
coming to the white man's country: we are the true ancients, who can
tell wonderful things." Two of them now had fever in the continued form,
and became jaundiced, the whites or conjunctival membrane of their eyes
becoming as yellow as saffron; and a third suffered from an attack of
mania. He came to his companions one day, and said, "Remain well. I am
called away by th