328 * GERMAN SAILORS — MARKETS. 



the sailors of ships belonging to the two countries. 

 Sunday night, generally, is the occasion of broils 

 between them, and these, the police informed me, 

 were the most serious disturbances they had to con- 

 tend with. 



The German sailors were the merriest of any nation 

 whom I saw on liberty — gathering in little knots, 

 and sinOTno: the songs of their fatherland with the 

 utmost good-fellowship, and not without melody. 

 They were very exclusive in their associations, and 

 mixed w^ith none but their own circle of shipmates. 



The markets of Mauritius were filled with fruit of 

 the various kinds to be found in tropical climates — 

 the pine-apple, cocoa-nut, banana, oranges, lemons., 

 and limes, all being found here in abundance. The 

 favorite condiment of the blacks is the sugar-cane, 

 which they suck in pieces as long as themselves ; and 

 two youngsters may be seen, each supporting and 

 sucking away at either end of a piece of green sugar- 

 cane a fathom in length. 



This city differs very much from Hobartown in 

 two of its striking features. In the latter city, at 

 every corner is to be seen a mendicant ; in Port Louis 

 I did not see a single person soliciting charity. The 

 other feature that I refer to is the absence of all 

 itinerant hawkers, except the cake venders, who are 

 the only class of petty tradesmen who make a depot 

 of the streets for the sale of their goods ; whilst in 

 the capital of Van Diemen's Land, as I have re- 

 marked elsewhere in my notice on it, at ever}' step 

 one is beset by these pertinacious leeches, anxious to 

 make a sale. 



But in another point there is a perfect resemblance 



