. 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. heapnessof provisions here, I may mention that the cost was only about aguinea per head. On crossing the Lucalla, we made a detour to the south, inorder to visit the famous rocks of Pungo Andongo. As soon aswe crossed the rivulet Lotete, a change in the vegetation of thecountry was apparent. We found trees identical with tho
. 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. heapnessof provisions here, I may mention that the cost was only about aguinea per head. On crossing the Lucalla, we made a detour to the south, inorder to visit the famous rocks of Pungo Andongo. As soon aswe crossed the rivulet Lotete, a change in the vegetation of thecountry was apparent. We found trees identical with those to beseen south of the Chobe. The grass too stands in tufts, and is ofthat kind which the natives consider to be best adapted for species of grape-bearing vines abound everywhere in thisdistrict, and the influence of the good pasturage is seen in theplump condition of the cattle. In all my previous inquiriesrespecting the vegetable products of Angola I was invariablydirected to Pungo Andongo. Do you grow wheat? 0 yes,in Pungo Andongo.—Grapes, figs, or peaches? 0 yes, inPungo Andongo.—Do you make butter, cheese, &c. ? Theuniform answer was, 0 yes, there is abundance of all these hiPungo Andongo. But when we arrived here, we found that the 2 e 2. Chap. XXI. PUXGO ANDONGO. 421 • answers all referred to the activity of one man, Colonel ManuelAntonio Pires. The presence of the wild grape shows thatvineyards might be cultivated with success; the wheat growswell without irrigation; and any one who tasted the butter andcheese at the table of Colonel Pires would prefer them to thestale produce of the Irish dairy, in general use throughout thatprovince. The cattle in tins country are seldom milked, onaccount of the strong prejudice winch the Portuguese entertainagainst the use of milk. They believe that it may be used withsafety in the morning; but if taken after midday, that it willcause fever. It seemed to me that there was not much reasonfor carefully avoiding a fe
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