They have a particular anxiety to secure the point where cross-roads meet.

On and around the graves are planted tree euphorbias and other species of that family.

On the grave itself they also place water-bottles, broken pipes, cooking vessels, and sometimes a little bow and arrow.
The Portuguese government, wishing to prevent this custom, affixed a penalty on any one burying in the roads, and appointed places of public sepulture in every district in the country.

The people persist, however, in spite of the most stringent enforcement of the law, to follow their ancient custom.
The country between the Coanza and Pungo Andongo is covered with low trees, bushes, and fine pasturage.

In the latter, we were pleased to see our old acquaintances, the gaudy gladiolus, Amaryllis toxicaria, hymanthus, and other bulbs in as flourishing a condition as at the Cape.
It is surprising that so little has been done in the way of agriculture in Angola.