Chapter I: Front Matter

ANGOLA

AND

THE RIVER CONGO.

BY

JOACHIM JOHN MONTEIRO,

ASSOCIATE OF THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, AND CORRESPONDING
MEMBER OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

_WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS._

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1875.

_All Rights Reserved._

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE

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

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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.