Two thirds of the month was spent in stoppages, there being only ten traveling days in each month.

The stoppages were caused by sickness, and the necessity of remaining in different parts to purchase food; and also because, when one carrier was sick, the rest refused to carry his load.
One of the Pombeiros had eight good-looking women in a chain whom he was taking to the country of Matiamvo to sell for ivory.

They always looked ashamed when I happened to come near them, and must have felt keenly their forlorn and degraded position.

I believe they were captives taken from the rebel Cassanges.

The way in which slaves are spoken of in Angola and eastern Africa must sound strangely even to the owners when they first come from Europe.