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Title: The African sketch-book
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Reade, William Winwood, 1838-1875
Subjects: Africa, West -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & co.
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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nd. A black pilot came on board, andtook us into the harbour, which is spacious and secure,and is formed by an island lying opposite the town.This island was once famous for the cowries it produced,which shells were formerly current as coins in thecountries of the Congo. It is now inhabited by fisher-men, and is a pleasure-garden for the citizens, wholight it up on their fete days, and thither resort formusic and dancing, coffee and orgeade. The possessions of the Portuguese are extensive,stretching along the coast to the Congo, on one side,and on the other to Mossamedes, near Little Fish Bay,on the borders of the waterless tract, which thence ex-tends to the Cape of Good Hope. The eastern limit ofthe province is Cassange, three hundred miles from the sea. In the sixteenth century San Paolo de Loanda wasone of the finest seaports in the world. It has declined,as Lisbon has declined. The college of the Jesuits is aworkshop ; and oxen feed within the old cathedral. At PORTUGUESE AFRICA.
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The region comprised in this map is Por-tuguese. The Congo is neutral ground. An-gola is a true colony. This country possessesrich mines of copper. No Moslems ever seen.Food. Chiefly cassada. Authorities. For theCongo, Tuckey. For Angola, Livingstone.For Benguela, Ladislaus Magyar. Now thatthe slave trade is abolished, the commerce ofCongo will become important. From GreatFish Bay, or thereabouts, to the Orange Riveris a waterless tract of coast, its interior in-habited chiefiyljy Hottentot tribes. -Authori-ties. Galton, Andersson, &c. But thisbelongs to Southern Africa. J 6 14° 16° 16° o 2o *o 60 80 loolji^lisb Miles London: Smith,Elder & CV Stanfords GtoqXdabt,6& 7 CKarijruj (Hiss. Book II) THE RUINS OF THE PORTUGUESE 251 first, the Portuguese commenced to colonise Angola ona mighty scale; they fought great battles and subduednations. They projected an overland route to India,across the continent, from Loanda to Mozambique, inorder to avoid the voyage round the Cape.1

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