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cultivated and more scattered farms. The plantations were fenced 

 with various material, but never with cut wood or stone walls. 

 The growing stems of the dark red Draccrna were common, inter- 

 twined with Lantana camarra, passion vine, or other twiner, while 

 behind the fence which was often on a bank much higher than the 

 roadbed, and was supported on the inner side by fruit or orna- 

 mental trees, were rows of coffee or white daturas in full bloom. 

 I noticed tea plantations, the plants hardly exceeding 30 inches 

 in height, in rows with maize or coffee between each third or fourth 

 row and the next ; coffee plantations in which the trees were high 

 and with few r berries, not looking well generally ; cinchona fields 

 which looked much cleaner and more open to the sun, but even 

 these had fruit trees scattered through them, most of these neither 

 in blossom nor fruit, and the foliage unrecognized by me. 



At last the fenced lanes ceased and we were in the open coun- 

 try, although there were two sets of bambu bars across the road, 

 which we found open on our return, so I inferred that they were 

 only closed at night to keep out stray goats or sheep which were 

 common enough through the country. Here were fields of ground- 

 nut and potatoes, of which the small round tubers supply the 

 neighboring towns. 



The region I was wanting most to see came at last — the native 

 forest, and with it came much up- with some downhill climbing. 

 The trees were dripping from the morning rain, so my coat was 

 still in use as well as for the cool air. The clayey road or path 

 was slippery, as it probably is most of the time, for the bed is well 

 planted with transverse rows of flat stones set edgewise to form 

 secure footholds for the horses, and they were much needed, as I 

 found when my paard first chose the unstoned side of the path ; I 

 took care afterwards that he kept within bounds, although he often 

 had to zigzag across the steep incline. 



The dripping was soon forgotten, and I do not know when it 

 ceased, for there were other things to notice, and of these the ani- 

 mate thing claimed attention first, for the paard was panting at 

 the top of a steep hill after perhaps the heaviest burden he had 

 ever borne, so I dismounted to let him rest and the boys smoke 

 their cigarettes while they tightened the girths. On the way out, 

 in the rain and darkness, my driver had smoked his cigarette, 

 although I did not see him light it, and I believe he must have 



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