They replied that they only thought it right to tell me what had been told to them, but they did not intend to leave me, and would follow wherever I should lead the way.
This affair being disposed of for the time, the commandant gave them an ox, and me a friendly dinner before parting.

All the merchants of Cassange accompanied us, in their hammocks carried by slaves, to the edge of the plateau on which their village stands, and we parted with the feeling in my mind that I should never forget their disinterested kindness.

They not only did every thing they could to make my men and me comfortable during our stay; but, there being no hotels in Loanda, they furnished me with letters of recommendation to their friends in that city, requesting them to receive me into their houses, for without these a stranger might find himself a lodger in the streets.

May God remember them in their day of need! The latitude and longitude of Cassange, the most easterly station of the Portuguese in Western Africa, is lat.

9d 37' 30" S., and long.