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 Sickness--Kindness of the Bishop of Angola and her Majesty's Officers--Mr.Gabriel's unwearied Hospitality--Serious Deportment of the Makololo--They visit Ships of War--Politeness of the Officers and Men--The Makololo attend Mass in the Cathedral--Their Remarks--Find Employment in collecting Firewood and unloading Coal--Their superior Judgment respecting Goods--Beneficial Influence of the Bishop of Angola--The City of St.Paul de Loanda--The Harbor--Custom- house--No English Merchants--Sincerity of the Portuguese Government in suppressing the Slave-trade--Convict Soldiers-- Presents from Bishop and Merchants for Sekeletu--Outfit--Leave Loanda 20th September, 1854--Accompanied by Mr.Gabriel as far as Icollo i Bengo--Sugar Manufactory--Geology of this part of the Country--Women spinning Cotton--Its Price--Native Weavers-- Market-places--Cazengo; its Coffee Plantations--South American Trees--Ruins of Iron Foundry--Native Miners--The Banks of the Lucalla--Cottages with Stages--Tobacco-plants-- Town of Massangano--Sugar and Rice--Superior District for Cotton--Portuguese Merchants and foreign Enterprise--Ruins-- The Fort and its ancient Guns--Former Importance of Massangano--Fires--The Tribe Kisama--Peculiar Variety of Domestic Fowl--Coffee Plantations--Return to Golungo Alto-- Self-complacency of the Makololo--Fever--Jaundice--Insanity.
Chapter 21.

Visit a deserted Convent--Favorable Report of Jesuits and their Teaching--Gradations of native Society-- Punishment of Thieves--Palm-toddy; its baneful Effects-- Freemasons--Marriages and Funerals--Litigation--Mr.Canto's Illness--Bad Behavior of his Slaves--An Entertainment--Ideas on Free Labor--Loss of American Cotton-seed--Abundance of Cotton in the country--Sickness of Sekeletu's Horse--Eclipse of the Sun--Insects which distill Water--Experiments with them--Proceed to Ambaca--Sickly Season--Office of Commandant-- Punishment of official Delinquents--Present from Mr.Schut of Loanda--Visit Pungo Andongo--Its good Pasturage, Grain, Fruit, etc .-- The Fort and columnar Rocks--The Queen of Jinga-- Salubrity of Pungo Andongo--Price of a Slave--A Merchant- prince--His Hospitality--Hear of the Loss of my Papers in "Forerunner"-- Narrow Escape from an Alligator--Ancient Burial- places--Neglect of Agriculture in Angola--Manioc the staple Product--Its Cheapness--Sickness--Friendly Visit from a colored Priest--The Prince of Congo--No Priests in the Interior of Angola.
Chapter 22.

Leave Pungo Andongo--Extent of Portuguese Power-- Meet Traders and Carriers--Red Ants; their fierce Attack; Usefulness; Numbers--Descend the Heights of Tala Mungongo-- Fruit-trees in the Valley of Cassange--Edible Muscle--Birds-- Cassange Village--Quinine and Cathory--Sickness of Captain Neves' Infant--A Diviner thrashed--Death of the Child-- Mourning--Loss of Life from the Ordeal--Wide-spread Superstitions--The Chieftainship--Charms--Receive Copies of the "Times"-- Trading Pombeiros--Present for Matiamvo--Fever after westerly Winds--Capabilities of Angola for producing the raw Materials of English Manufacture--Trading Parties with Ivory--More Fever--A Hyaena's Choice--Makololo Opinion of the Portuguese--Cypriano's Debt--A Funeral--Dread of disembodied Spirits--Beautiful Morning Scenes--Crossing the Quango-- Ambakistas called "The Jews of Angola"-- Fashions of the Bashinje--Approach the Village of Sansawe--His Idea of Dignity--The Pombeiros' Present--Long Detention--A Blow on the Beard--Attacked in a Forest--Sudden Conversion of a fighting Chief to Peace Principles by means of a Revolver--No Blood shed in consequence--Rate of Traveling--Slave Women--Way of addressing Slaves--Their thievish Propensities--Feeders of the Congo or Zaire--Obliged to refuse Presents--Cross the Loajima-- Appearance of People; Hair Fashions.
Chapter 23.

Make a Detour southward--Peculiarities of the Inhabitants--Scarcity of Animals--Forests--Geological Structure of the Country--Abundance and Cheapness of Food near the Chihombo--A Slave lost--The Makololo Opinion of Slaveholders--Funeral Obsequies in Cabango--Send a Sketch of the Country to Mr.Gabriel--Native Information respecting the Kasai and Quango--The Trade with Luba--Drainage of Londa-- Report of Matiamvo's Country and Government--Senhor Faria's Present to a Chief--The Balonda Mode of spending Time-- Faithless Guide--Makololo lament the Ignorance of the Balonda-- Eagerness of the Villagers for Trade--Civility of a Female Chief--The Chief Bango and his People--Refuse to eat Beef-- Ambition of Africans to have a Village--Winters in the Interior--Spring at Kolobeng--White Ants: "Never could desire to eat any thing better"-- Young Herbage and Animals--Valley of the Loembwe--The white Man a Hobgoblin--Specimen of Quarreling--Eager Desire for Calico--Want of Clothing at Kawawa's--Funeral Observances--Agreeable Intercourse with Kawawa--His impudent Demand--Unpleasant Parting--Kawawa tries to prevent our crossing the River Kasai--Stratagem.
Chapter 24.