Massangano--Fires--The Tribe Kisama--Peculiar Variety of
Domestic Fowl--Coffee Plantations--Return to Golungo Alto--
Self-complacency of the Makololo--Fever--Jaundice--Insanity.

Chapter 21. Visit a deserted Convent--Favorable Report of
Jesuits and their Teaching--Gradations of native Society--
Punishment of Thieves--Palm-toddy; its baneful Effects--
Freemasons--Marriages and Funerals--Litigation--Mr. Canto's
Illness--Bad Behavior of his Slaves--An Entertainment--Ideas
on Free Labor--Loss of American Cotton-seed--Abundance of
Cotton in the country--Sickness of Sekeletu's Horse--Eclipse
of the Sun--Insects which distill Water--Experiments with
them--Proceed to Ambaca--Sickly Season--Office of Commandant--
Punishment of official Delinquents--Present from Mr. Schut of
Loanda--Visit Pungo Andongo--Its good Pasturage, Grain, Fruit,
etc.--The Fort and columnar Rocks--The Queen of Jinga--
Salubrity of Pungo Andongo--Price of a Slave--A Merchant-
prince--His Hospitality--Hear of the Loss of my Papers in
"Forerunner"--Narrow Escape from an Alligator--Ancient Burial-
places--Neglect of Agriculture in Angola--Manioc the staple
Product--Its Cheapness--Sickness--Friendly Visit from a
colored Priest--The Prince of Congo--No Priests in the
Interior of Angola.

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--