But believing that it was my duty to devote some portion of my life to these (to me at least) very confiding and affectionate Makololo, I resolved to follow out the second part of my plan, though I had failed in accomplishing the first.

The Leeba seemed to come from the N.and by W., or N.N.W.; so, having an old Portuguese map, which pointed out the Coanza as rising from the middle of the continent in 9 Deg.

S.lat., I thought it probable that, when we had ascended the Leeba (from 14d 11') two or three degrees, we should then be within one hundred and twenty miles of the Coanza, and find no difficulty in following it down to the coast near Loanda.

This was the logical deduction; but, as is the case with many a plausible theory, one of the premises was decidedly defective.

The Coanza, as we afterward found, does not come from any where near the centre of the country.
The numbers of large game above Libonta are prodigious, and they proved remarkably tame.