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-- Mourning--Loss of Life from the Ordeal--Wide-spread Superstitions--The Chieftainship--Charms--Receive Copies of the "Times"--Trading Pombeiros--Present for Matiamvo--Fever after westerly Winds--Capabilities of Angola for producing the raw Materials of English Manufacture--Trading Parties with Ivory--More Fever--A Hyaena's Choice--Makololo Opinion of the Portuguese--Cypriano's Debt--A Funeral--Dread of disembodied Spirits--Beautiful Morning Scenes--Crossing the Quango-- Ambakistas called "The Jews of Angola"--Fashions of the Bashinje--Approach the Village of Sansawe--His Idea of Dignity--The Pombeiros' Present--Long Detention--A Blow on the Beard--Attacked in a Forest--Sudden Conversion of a fighting Chief to Peace Principles by means of a Revolver--No Blood shed in consequence--Rate of Traveling--Slave Women--Way of addressing Slaves--Their thievish Propensities--Feeders of the Congo or Zaire--Obliged to refuse Presents--Cross the Loajima-- Appearance of People; Hair Fashions.
Chapter 23. Make a Detour southward--Peculiarities of the Inhabitants--Scarcity of Animals--Forests--Geological Structure of the Country--Abundance and Cheapness of Food near the Chihombo--A Slave lost--The Makololo Opinion of Slaveholders--Funeral Obsequies in Cabango--Send a Sketch of the Country to Mr. Gabriel--Native Information respecting the Kasai and Quango--The Trade with Luba--Drainage of Londa-- Report of Matiamvo's Country and Government--Senhor Faria's Present to a Chief--The Balonda Mode of spending Time-- Faithless Guide--Makololo lament the Ignorance of the Balonda-- Eagerness of the Villagers for Trade--Civility of a Female Chief--The Chief Bango and his People--Refuse to eat Beef-- Ambition of Africans to have a Village--Winters in the Interior--Spring at Kolobeng--White Ants: "Never could desire to eat any thing better"--Young Herbage and Animals--Valley of the Loembwe--The white Man a Hobgoblin--Specimen of Quarreling--Eager Desire for Calico--Want of Clothing at Kawawa's--Funeral Observances--Agreeable Intercourse with Kawawa--His impudent Demand--Unpleasant Parting--Kawawa tries to prevent our crossing the River Kasai--Stratagem.
Chapter 24. Level Plains--Vultures and other Birds--Diversity of Color in Flowers of the same Species--The Sundew--Twenty- seventh Attack of Fever--A River which flows in opposite Directions--Lake Dilolo the Watershed between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans--Position of Rocks--Sir Roderick Murchison's Explanation--Characteristics of the Rainy Season in connection with the Floods of the Zambesi and the Nile--Probable Reason of Difference in Amount of Rain South and North of the Equator--Arab Reports of Region east of Londa--Probable Watershed of the Zambesi and the Nile--Lake Dilolo--Reach Katema's Town: his renewed Hospitality; desire to appear like a White Man; ludicrous Departure--Jackdaws--Ford southern Branch of Lake Dilolo--Small Fish--Project for a Makololo Village near the Confluence of the Leeba and the Leeambye-- Hearty Welcome from Shinte--Kolimbota's Wound--Plant-seeds and Fruit-trees brought from Angola--Masiko and Limboa's Quarrel-- Nyamoana now a Widow--Purchase Canoes and descend the Leeba-- Herds of wild Animals on its Banks--Unsuccessful Buffalo- hunt--Frogs--Sinbad and the Tsetse--Dispatch a Message to Manenko--Arrival of her Husband Sambanza--The Ceremony called Kasendi--Unexpected Fee for performing a surgical Operation-- Social Condition of the Tribes--Desertion of Mboenga-- Stratagem of Mambowe Hunters--Water-turtles--Charged by a Buffalo--Reception from the People of Libonta--Explain the Causes of our long Delay--Pitsane's Speech--Thanksgiving Services--Appearance of my "Braves"--Wonderful Kindness of the People.