There were many Mambari with them, and the establishment was conducted with that military order which pervades all the arrangements of the Portuguese colonists.

A drum was beaten and trumpet sounded at certain hours, quite in military fashion.

It was the first time most of my men had seen slaves in chains.

"They are not men," they exclaimed (meaning they are beasts), "who treat their children so." The Balonda are real negroes, having much more wool on their heads and bodies than any of the Bechuana or Caffre tribes.

They are generally very dark in color, but several are to be seen of a lighter hue; many of the slaves who have been exported to Brazil have gone from this region; but while they have a general similarity to the typical negro, I never could, from my own observation, think that our ideal negro, as seen in tobacconists' shops, is the true type.