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Accompanied by the commandant of Cazengo, who was well acquainted with this part of the country, I proceeded in a canoe down the River Lucalla to Massangano. This river is about 85 yards wide, and navigable for canoes from its confluence with the Coanza to about six miles above the point where it receives the Luinha.
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 Massangano Fires The Tribe Kisama Peculiar Variety of Domestic Fowl Coffee Plantations Return to Golungo Alto Self-complacency of the Makololo Fever Jaundice Insanity.
The level country is prolonged along the north bank of the Coanza to the edge of the Cassange basin, and a railway carried thither would be convenient for the transport of the products of the rich districts of Cassange, Pungo Andongo, Ambaca, Cambambe, Golungo Alto, Cazengo, Muchima, and Calumbo; in a word, the whole of Angola and independent tribes adjacent to this kingdom.
This led me to pass through the district of Cazengo, which is rather famous for the abundance and excellence of its coffee. Extensive coffee plantations were found to exist on the sides of the several lofty mountains that compose this district. They were not planted by the Portuguese.
Returning by ascending the Lucalla into Cazengo, we had an opportunity of visiting several flourishing coffee plantations, and observed that several men, who had begun with no capital but honest industry, had, in the course of a few years, acquired a comfortable subsistence. One of these, Mr.
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