Civility of Basongo--True Negroes--A Field of Wheat--Carriers--
Sleeping-places--Fever--Enter District of Ambaca--Good Fruits
of Jesuit Teaching--The 'Tampan'; its Bite--Universal
Hospitality of the Portuguese--A Tale of the Mambari--
Exhilarating Effects of Highland Scenery--District of Golungo
Alto--Want of good Roads--Fertility--Forests of gigantic
Timber--Native Carpenters--Coffee Estate--Sterility of Country
near the Coast--Mosquitoes--Fears of the Makololo--Welcome by
Mr. Gabriel to Loanda.

Chapter 20. Continued Sickness--Kindness of the Bishop of
Angola and her Majesty's Officers--Mr. Gabriel's unwearied
Hospitality--Serious Deportment of the Makololo--They visit
Ships of War--Politeness of the Officers and Men--The Makololo
attend Mass in the Cathedral--Their Remarks--Find Employment
in collecting Firewood and unloading Coal--Their superior
Judgment respecting Goods--Beneficial Influence of the Bishop
of Angola--The City of St. Paul de Loanda--The Harbor--Custom-
house--No English Merchants--Sincerity of the Portuguese
Government in suppressing the Slave-trade--Convict Soldiers--
Presents from Bishop and Merchants for Sekeletu--Outfit--Leave
Loanda 20th September, 1854--Accompanied by Mr. Gabriel as far
as Icollo i Bengo--Sugar Manufactory--Geology of this part of
the Country--Women spinning Cotton--Its Price--Native Weavers--
Market-places--Cazengo; its Coffee Plantations--South
American Trees--Ruins of Iron Foundry--Native Miners--The
Banks of the Lucalla--Cottages with Stages--Tobacco-plants--
Town of Massangano--Sugar and Rice--Superior District for
Cotton--Portuguese Merchants and foreign Enterprise--Ruins--
The Fort and its ancient Guns--Former Importance of