18d 37' E.), which may be called the boundary of the Portuguese claims to territory on the west.

As I had now no change of clothing, I was glad to cower under the shelter of my blanket, thankful to God for his goodness in bringing us so far without losing one of the party.
4TH APRIL.

We were now on the banks of the Quango, a river one hundred and fifty yards wide, and very deep.

The water was discolored--a circumstance which we had observed in no river in Londa or in the Makololo country.

This fine river flows among extensive meadows clothed with gigantic grass and reeds, and in a direction nearly north.
The Quango is said by the natives to contain many venomous water-snakes, which congregate near the carcass of any hippopotamus that may be killed in it.