CHAPTER 22.
Leave Pungo Andongo--Extent of Portuguese Power--Meet Traders and Carriers--Red Ants; their fierce Attack; Usefulness; Numbers--Descend the Heights of Tala Mungongo--Fruit-trees in the Valley of Cassange--Edible Muscle--Birds--Cassange Village--Quinine and Cathory-- Sickness of Captain Neves' Infant--A Diviner thrashed--Death of the Child--Mourning--Loss of Life from the Ordeal--Wide-spread Superstitions--The Chieftainship--Charms--Receive Copies of the "Times"-- Trading Pombeiros--Present for Matiamvo--Fever after westerly Winds--Capabilities of Angola for producing the raw Materials of English Manufacture--Trading Parties with Ivory--More Fever--A Hyaena's Choice--Makololo Opinion of the Portuguese--Cypriano's Debt--A Funeral--Dread of disembodied Spirits--Beautiful Morning Scenes-- Crossing the Quango--Ambakistas called "The Jews of Angola"-- Fashions of the Bashinje--Approach the Village of Sansawe--His Idea of Dignity--The Pombeiros' Present--Long Detention--A Blow on the Beard--Attacked in a Forest--Sudden Conversion of a fighting Chief to Peace Principles by means of a Revolver--No Blood shed in consequence--Rate of Traveling--Slave Women--Way of addressing Slaves--Their thievish Propensities--Feeders of the Congo or Zaire--Obliged to refuse Presents--Cross the Loajima--Appearance of People; Hair Fashions.
JANUARY 1, 1855.

Having, through the kindness of Colonel Pires, reproduced some of my lost papers, I left Pungo Andongo the first day of this year, and at Candumba, slept in one of the dairy establishments of my friend, who had sent forward orders for an ample supply of butter, cheese, and milk.

Our path lay along the right bank of the Coanza.

This is composed of the same sandstone rock, with pebbles, which forms the flooring of the country.

The land is level, has much open forest, and is well adapted for pasturage.
On reaching the confluence of the Lombe, we left the river, and proceeded in a northeasterly direction, through a fine open green country, to the village of Malange, where we struck into our former path.