“Just as the port is left behind, the bush gets thicker, the cream of tartar trees disappear and the jungle starts creeping in between the folds of the hills: gradually, like a fungus over the earth, the dark green stain of the Dembos approaches.” Thus Elsa Joubert described the Dembos when she flew over it from Luanda to Carmona (Uige) in 1973. (Elsa Joubert, “Die Nuwe Afrikaan”, p.9.)

Al Venter described it as follows:...