The process of drying is completed on an iron plate over a slow fire, the mass being stirred meanwhile with a stick, and when quite dry it appears agglutinated into little globules, and is in the form we see the tapioca of commerce.

This is never eaten by weevils, and so little labor is required in its cultivation that on the spot it is extremely cheap.

Throughout the interior parts of Angola, fine manioc meal, which could with ease have been converted either into superior starch or tapioca, is commonly sold at the rate of about ten pounds for a penny.

All this region, however, has no means of transport to Loanda other than the shoulders of the carriers and slaves over a footpath.
Cambambe, to which the navigation of the Coanza reaches, is reported to be thirty leagues below Pungo Andongo.

A large waterfall is the limit on that side; and another exists higher up, at the confluence of the Lombe (lat.