264 DEL AGO A BAY. 



country, the houses being mostly at considerable 

 distances apart and on each side of a long road 

 planted with acacias and other shady tree?. 



"The scenery and vegetation are perfectly 

 tropical and enchanting. For miles the ground 

 is covered with a dense growth of cocoa-nut 

 palms, orange, lemon, mango, and other fruit- 

 trees ; and the many species and number of the 

 trees, creepers, and other wild plants growing in 

 profuse confusion attest the wonderful fertility 

 of the black alluvial soil and the damp moist 

 heat of the climate. This luxuriance of vege- 

 tation is said to extend to a great distance 

 inland. 



" The native plantations of rice, Indian corn, 

 Kafir corns, sugar-cane, cotton, okro, &c., are 

 simply magnificent, not in extent, but in the 

 size and luxuriant growth of the plants. 



"The natives build good huts, and seem a 

 good-natured, civil lot, but they are as ugly a 

 race as any to be met with either on this or the 

 West Coast. Here labour is said to be cheap 

 and abundant, and I know of no place better 



