CONTENTS.

PAGE
[CHAPTER I.]
[Country From Ambriz To Loanda—Mossulo—Libongo—Bitumen—River Dande—River Bengo—Quifandongo][1]
[CHAPTER II.]
[City of Loanda—Natives—Slavery—Convicts—Theatre and Morals][20]
[CHAPTER III.]
[Division of Angola—Wretched Pay of Officials—Abuses by Authorities—Evils of High Import Duties—Silver Mines of Cambambe—Journey to Cambambe—Exploration—Volcanic Rocks—Hornbill—The Plantain-eater—Hyenas][50]
[CHAPTER IV.]
[Province of Cazengo—Golungo Alto—Gold—Wild Coffee—Iron Smelting—Former Missionaries—Customs—Natives—Productions][84]
[CHAPTER V.]
[River Quanza—Calumbo—Bruto—Muxima—Massangano—Dondo—Falls of Cambambe—Dances—Musical Instruments—Quissama—Libollo][112]
[CHAPTER VI.]
[Country South of the River Quanza—Cassanza—Novo Redondo—Celis—Cannibals—Lions—Hot Springs—Bees—Egito—Scorpions—River Anha—Catumbella][151]
[CHAPTER VII.]
[Town of Benguella—Slave-trade—Mundombes—Customs—Copper—Hyenas—Monkeys—Copper Deposit—Gypsum—Hornbills—Birds—Fish—Lions][180]
[CHAPTER VIII.]
[Country between Benguella and Mossamedes—Mossamedes—Curious Deposits of Water—Hyenas—Welwitschia mirabilis—Mirage][212]
[CHAPTER IX.]
[Climate—Cookery—Drunkenness—Fever—Native Treatment—Ulcers—Smoking Wild-hemp—Native Remedies][233]
[CHAPTER X.]
[Customs—Burial—White Ant—Wasps—Fruits—Scents—Spitting-snake—Scarabæus—Lemur][268]
[CHAPTER XI.]
[Conclusion][307]
[Appendix][315]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[View of the City of St. Paul de Loanda] To face page [20]
[Bellows—Marimba—Native smiths—Rat-trap]” [93]
[Maxilla and Barber’s shop—Carrying corpse for burial—Quissama Women, and manner of pounding and sifting meal in Angola]” [147]
[Mundombes and Huts]” [185]
[Native-smelted Copper—Powder-flask—Mundombe Axe—Manner of securing Fish for drying—Hunters’ fetish (Benguella)—Manner of carrying in the hand (native jug)—Gourd-pipe for smoking Diamba—Wooden dish—Double-handled hoe]” [190]
[Welwitschias growing in a plain near Mossamedes]” [229]
[Pelopœus spirifex and nest—Devil of the Road—Dasylus sp.—Caterpillars’ nests—Mantis and Nest—Manis multiscutatum and Ants’ nests]” [277]

ANGOLA AND THE RIVER CONGO.

CHAPTER I.
COUNTRY FROM AMBRIZ TO LOANDA—MOSSULO—LIBONGO—BITUMEN—RIVER DANDE—RIVER BENGO—QUIFANDONGO.

The distance from Ambriz to Loanda is about sixty miles, and the greater part of the country is called Mossulo, from being inhabited by a tribe of that name. These natives have not yet been reduced to obedience by the Portuguese, not from any warlike or valorous opposition on their part, but entirely from the miserable want of energy of the latter in not taking the few wretched towns on the road. Incredible as it may appear, it is nevertheless a fact that to the present day the Mossulos will not allow a white man to pass overland from Libongo (about half-way from Loanda) to Ambriz, although this last place was occupied in 1855, and several expeditions have since been sent to and from Ambriz to Bembe and San Salvador. Nothing could have been easier than for one of these to have passed through the Mossulo country and to have occupied it, at once doing away with the reproach of allowing a mean tribe to bar a few miles of road almost at the gates of Loanda, the capital of Angola.