The higher rents being realized from those in the immediate vicinity of Loanda, none but Portuguese or half-castes can pay them.
When about to start, the horse which the governor had kindly presented for Sekeletu was seized with inflammation, which delayed us some time longer, and we ultimately lost it.

We had been careful to watch it when coming through the district of Matamba, where we had discovered the tsetse, that no insect might light upon it.

The change of diet here may have had some influence in producing the disease; for I was informed by Dr.Welweitsch, an able German naturalist, whom we found pursuing his arduous labors here, and whose life we hope may be spared to give his researches to the world, that, of fifty-eight kinds of grasses found at Loanda, only three or four species exist here, and these of the most diminutive kinds.

The twenty-four different species of grass of Golungo Alto are nearly all gigantic.

Indeed, gigantic grasses, climbers, shrubs and trees, with but few plants, constitute the vegetation of this region.
NOVEMBER 20TH.