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.
24TH.

Ionga Panza's sons agreed to act as guides into the territory of the Portuguese if I would give them the shell given by Shinte.

I was strongly averse to this, and especially to give it beforehand, but yielded to the entreaty of my people to appear as if showing confidence in these hopeful youths.

They urged that they wished to leave the shell with their wives, as a sort of payment to them for enduring their husbands' absence so long.

Having delivered the precious shell, we went west-by-north to the River Chikapa, which here (lat.