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Pale port wine and water, equal quantities ; 

 plenty of pine-apple chopped up in this, with 

 sugar to taste. Let this mixture stand for a 

 few hours, and just before serving add a little 

 champagne to give a dash of brightness. 



Bananas are. pretty plentiful, the best being a 

 small green variety. 



A great mauy plants and trees bear fruit 

 that the natives eat, some really with a most 

 agreeable flavour. Landolphia Monteiroi has 

 a bright yellow fruit about the size of a small 

 orange, sharp and refreshing to the taste, but 

 the white sticky juice that oozes out of the 

 rind, and which it is almost impossible to 

 prevent touching with the lips, is most un- 

 pleasant. There are a few trees, with small 

 dark green leaves, bearing clusters of a most 

 delicious little yellow egg-shaped stone-fruit 

 about three-quarters of au inch long. They are 

 very thin-skinned and full of a sweet, slightly 

 acid milky juice that has to be scraped from off 

 the lips when the repast is finished, it adheres so 

 closely. 



