The country becomes more open, but is still abundantly fertile, with a thick crop of grass between two and three feet high.

It is also well wooded and watered.

Villages of Basongo are dotted over the landscape, and frequently a square house of wattle and daub, belonging to native Portuguese, is placed beside them for the purposes of trade.

The people here possess both cattle and pigs.

The different sleeping-places on our path, from eight to ten miles apart, are marked by a cluster of sheds made of sticks and grass.