Loanda

Loanda, SAINT PAUL DE, chief town of the Portuguese possessions on the West Coast of Africa, lies on a small bay, some 210 miles S. of the mouth of the Congo. It has broad, tree-shaded but dirty streets, several churches, forts (1578), and the residences of the governor and bishop. The harbour is gradually sanding up, so that vessels lie $1\backslash frac\{1\}\{4\}$ mile from shore. In 1888-92 a railway was made to Ambaca, 140 miles inland: gas was introduced in 1893. Pop. 50,000, of whom about 15,000 are Europeans.