. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. them, and theywould be taken on board ship, fattened, and eaten, as the whitemen were cannibals. I asked if they had ever heard of anEnglishman buying or selling people; if I had not refused to takea slave when she was offered to me by Shinte; but as I hadalways behaved as an English teacher, if they now doubted myintentions
. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. them, and theywould be taken on board ship, fattened, and eaten, as the whitemen were cannibals. I asked if they had ever heard of anEnglishman buying or selling people; if I had not refused to takea slave when she was offered to me by Shinte; but as I hadalways behaved as an English teacher, if they now doubted myintentions, they had better not go to the coast: I, however, whoexpected to meet some of my countrymen there, was determinedto go on. They replied that they only thought it right to tellme what had been told to them, but they did not intend to leaveme, and would follow wherever I should lead the way. Thisaffair being disposed of for the time, the Commandant gave theman ox, and me a friendly dinner before parting. All the mer-chants of Cassange accompanied us, in their hammocks carried byslaves, to the edge of the plateau on which their village stands,and we parted with the feeling in my mind that I should neverforget their disinterested kindness. They not only did everything. Chap. XIX. A SOLDIER-GUIDE. 375 they could to make my men and me comfortable during ourstay, but, there being no hotels in Loanda, they furnished mewith letters of recommendation to their friends in that city,requesting them to receive me into then- houses, for without these,a stranger might find himself a lodger in the streets. May Godremember them in their day of need! The latitude and longitude of Cassange, the most easterlystation of the Portuguese in Western Africa, is lat. 9° 37 30 S.,and long. 17° 49 E.; consequently we had still about 300 milesto traverse before we could reach the coast. We had a blackmilitia corporal as a guide. He was a native of Ambaca, and, likenearly all the inhabitants of that distri
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