the dairy establishments of
my friend, who had sent forward orders for an ample supply of butter,
cheese, and milk. Our path lay along the right bank of the Coanza. This
is composed of the same sandstone rock, with pebbles, which forms the
flooring of the country. The land is level, has much open forest, and is
well adapted for pasturage.

On reaching the confluence of the Lombe, we left the river, and
proceeded in a northeasterly direction, through a fine open green
country, to the village of Malange, where we struck into our former
path. A few miles to the west of this a path branches off to a new
district named the Duke Braganza. This path crosses the Lucalla and
several of its feeders. The whole of the country drained by these
is described as extremely fertile. The territory west of Braganza is
reported to be mountainous, well wooded and watered; wild coffee is
abundant, and the people even make their huts of coffee-trees. The
rivers Dande, Senza, and Lucalla are said to rise in one mountain
range. Numerous tribes inhabit the country to the north, who are all
independent. The Portuguese power extends chiefly over the tribes
through whose lands we have passed. It may be said to be firmly seated
only between the rivers Dande and Coanza. It extends inland about three
hundred miles to the River Quango; and the population, according to the
imperfect data afforded by the census, given annually by the commandants
of the fifteen or sixteen districts into which it is divided, can not be
under 600,000 souls.

Leaving Malange, we passed quickly, without deviation, along the path
by which we had come. At Sanza (lat. 9d 37' 46" S., long. 16d 59' E.) we
expected to get a little seed-wheat, but this was not now to be found
in Angola. The underlying rock of the whole of this section is that same
sandstone which we have before noticed, but it gradually becomes finer
in the grain, with the addition of a little mica, the farther we go
eastward; we enter upon clay shale at Tala Mungongo (lat. 9d 42' 37" S.,
long. 17d 27' E.), and find it dipping a little to the west. The general
geological structure is a broad fringe of mica and sandstone schist
(about 15 Deg. E.), dipping in toward the centre of the country, beneath
these horizontal and sedimentary rocks of more recent date, which form
an inland basin. The fringe is not, however, the highest in altitude,
though the oldest in age.

While at this latter place we met a native of Bihe