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less seen. So much for believing what one hears. 

 Another gentleman, after residing t\vo months 

 in Mashequene, told me he had not seen one 

 butterfly yet, and wondered where I found all 

 mine ; and this, too, in the hot season, when the 

 common species almost fly into one's face, they 

 are so plentiful ; but illustrations of the old 

 saying, " Eves and no eyes," are everywhere so 

 common that this did not surprise me much. 



I repeat, then, that a large proportion of the 

 flowers are sweet-scented, but many of the 

 sweetest blossoms are only greenish yellow and 

 very tiny, reminding one of the colouring of 

 our own sweet mignonette ; the odour of some 

 of these is wafted by the wind from long 

 distances, one in particular being like strong 

 vanillo. 



Amongst the large sweet-scented flowers is a 

 Gardenia measuring four and a half inches in 

 diameter. It is pure white, with nine petals, 

 each one slightly overlapping the other, and 

 #rows on a shrub-like tree with whitish bark. 

 Unfortunately its beauty is but fleeting, each 



