to 60 Deg., though, when protected, sometimes standing as high as 64 Deg.

at six A.M.When the sun is well up, the thermometer in the shade rises to 80 Deg., and in the evenings it is about 78 Deg.
A person having died in this village, we could transact no business with the chief until the funeral obsequies were finished.

These occupy about four days, during which there is a constant succession of dancing, wailing, and feasting.

Guns are fired by day, and drums beaten by night, and all the relatives, dressed in fantastic caps, keep up the ceremonies with spirit proportionate to the amount of beer and beef expended.

When there is a large expenditure, the remark is often made afterward, "What a fine funeral that was!" A figure, consisting chiefly of feathers and beads, is paraded on these occasions, and seems to be regarded as an idol.
Having met with an accident to one of my eyes by a blow from a branch in passing through a forest, I remained some days here, endeavoring, though with much pain, to draw a sketch of the country thus far, to be sent back to Mr.Gabriel at Loanda.