he Power of Charms--Demand for Gunpowder and English
Calico--The Kasai--Vexatious Trick--Want of Food--No Game--
Katende's unreasonable Demand--A grave Offense--Toll-bridge
Keeper--Greedy Guides--Flooded Valleys--Swim the Nyuana Loke--
Prompt Kindness of my Men--Makololo Remarks on the rich
uncultivated Valleys--Difference in the Color of Africans--
Reach a Village of the Chiboque--The Head Man's impudent
Message--Surrounds our Encampment with his Warriors--The
Pretense--Their Demand--Prospect of a Fight--Way in which it
was averted--Change our Path--Summer--Fever--Beehives and the
Honey-guide--Instinct of Trees--Climbers--The Ox Sinbad--
Absence of Thorns in the Forests--Plant peculiar to a forsaken
Garden--Bad Guides--Insubordination suppressed--Beset by
Enemies--A Robber Party--More Troubles--Detained by Ionga
Panza--His Village--Annoyed by Bangala Traders--My Men
discouraged--Their Determination and Precaution.

Chapter 19. Guides prepaid--Bark Canoes--Deserted by Guides--
Mistakes respecting the Coanza--Feelings of freed Slaves--
Gardens and Villages--Native Traders--A Grave--Valley of the
Quango--Bamboo--White Larvae used as Food--Bashinje Insolence--
A posing Question--The Chief Sansawe--His Hostility--Pass him
safely--The River Quango--Chief's mode of dressing his Hair--
Opposition--Opportune Aid by Cypriano--His generous
Hospitality--Ability of Half-castes to read and write--Books
and Images--Marauding Party burned in the Grass--Arrive at
Cassange--A good Supper--Kindness of Captain Neves--
Portuguese Curiosity and Questions--Anniversary of the
Resurrection--No Prejudice against Color--Country around
Cassange--Sell Sekeletu's Ivory--Makololo's Surprise at the
high Price obtained--Proposal to return Home, and Reasons--
Soldier-guide--Hill Kasala--Tala Mungongo, Village of--
Civility of Basongo--True Negroes--A Field of Wheat--Carriers--
Sleeping-places--Fever--Enter District of Ambaca--Good Fruits
of Jesuit Teaching--The 'Tampan'; its Bite--Universal
Hospitality of the Portuguese--A Tale of the Mambari--
Exhilarating Effects of Highland Scenery--District of Golungo
Alto--Want of good Roads--Fertility--Forests of gigantic
Timber--Native Carpenters--Coffee Estate--Sterility of Country
near the Coast--Mosquitoes--Fears of the Makololo--Welcome by
Mr. Gabriel to Loanda.

Chapter 20. Continued