CHAPTER VII.
IN CAMP ON THE BANKS OF THE COANZA.
The aspect of the country was entirely changed since the inundation.
It had made a lake of the plain where the termite village stood.

The cones of twenty ant-hills emerged, and formed the only projecting points on this large basin.
The Coanza had overflowed during the night, with the waters of its tributaries swelled by the storm.
This Coanza, one of the rivers of Angola, flows into the Atlantic, a hundred miles from the cape where the "Pilgrim" was wrecked.

It was this river that Lieutenant Cameron had to cross some years later, before reaching Benguela.

The Coanza is intended to become the vehicle for the interior transit of this portion of the Portuguese colony.
Already steamers ascend its lower course, and before ten years elapse, they will ply over its upper bed.

Dick Sand had then acted wisely in seeking some navigable river toward the north.