To avoid this confusion as much as possible, I have refrained from introducing many names.

Numerous villages are studded all over the valley; but these possess no permanence, and many more existed previous to the Portuguese expedition of 1850 to punish the Bangala.
This valley, as I have before remarked, is all fertile in the extreme.
My men could never cease admiring its capability for raising their corn ('Holcus sorghum'), and despising the comparatively limited cultivation of the inhabitants.

The Portuguese informed me that no manure is ever needed, but that, the more the ground is tilled, the better it yields.
Virgin soil does not give such a heavy crop as an old garden, and, judging from the size of the maize and manioc in the latter, I can readily believe the statement.

Cattle do well, too.

Viewing the valley as a whole, it may be said that its agricultural and pastoral riches are lying waste.