Numerous tribes inhabit the country to the north, who are all independent.

The Portuguese power extends chiefly over the tribes through whose lands we have passed.

It may be said to be firmly seated only between the rivers Dande and Coanza.

It extends inland about three hundred miles to the River Quango; and the population, according to the imperfect data afforded by the census, given annually by the commandants of the fifteen or sixteen districts into which it is divided, can not be under 600,000 souls.
Leaving Malange, we passed quickly, without deviation, along the path by which we had come.

At Sanza (lat.