| 1845-46 | 36,284 14 2 | 24,580 4 10 | 60,864 19 0 | 56,695 9 7 | | 1846-47 | 28,919 16 11 | 23,327 9 11 | 52,247 6 10 | 52,180 9 7 | | 1847-48 | 29,264 5 10 | 24,490 11 8 | 53,754 17 6 | 53,440 8 8 | | 1848-49 | 31,430 9 7 | 18,868 3 10 | 51,298 13 5 | 50,686 3 3 | ------------------------------------------------------------
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The above account exhibits the total revenue and charges of the government of St. Paul de Loanda in each year, from 1844- 45 to 1848-49, both included.  The above three tables are copied from the appendix to a dispatch sent by Mr. Gabriel to Viscount Palmerston, dated the 5th of August, 1850, and, among other facts of interest, show a very satisfactory diminution in the duties upon slaves.

   The returns from 1818 to 1844 have been obtained from
   different sources as the average revenue; those from 1844 to
   1849 are from the Custom-house records.

As soon as we could move toward the Quango we did so, meeting in our course several trading-parties, both native and Portuguese.  We met two of the latter carrying a tusk weighing 126 lbs.  The owner afterward informed us that its fellow on the left side of the same elephant was 130 lbs.  It was 8 feet 6-1/2 inches long, and 21 inches in circumference at the part on which the lip of the animal rests.  The elephant was rather a small one, as is common in this hot central region.  Some idea may be formed of the strength of his neck when it is recollected that he bore a weight of 256 lbs.  The ivory which comes from the east and northeast of Cassange is very much larger than any to be found further south.  Captain Neves had one weighing 120 lbs., and this weight is by no means uncommon.  They have been found weighing even 158 lbs.

Before reaching the Quango we were again brought to a stand by fever in two of my companions, close to the residence of a Portuguese who rejoiced in the name of William Tell, and who lived here in spite of the prohibition of the government.  We were using the water of a pond, and this gentleman, having come to invite me to dinner, drank a little of it, and caught fever in consequence.  If malarious matter existed in water, it would have been a wonder had we escaped; for, traveling in the sun, with the thermometer from 96 Degrees to 98 Degrees in the shade, the evaporation from our bodies causing much thirst, we generally partook of every water we came to.  We had probably thus more disease than others might suffer who had better shelter.

Mr. Tell remarked that his garden was rather barren, being still, as he said, wild; but when more worked it would become better, though no manure be applied.  My men were busy collecting a better breed of fowls and pigeons than those in their own country.  Mr. Tell presented them with some large specimens from Rio Janeiro.  Of these they were wonderfully proud, and bore the cock in triumph through the country of