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his labours in about a ton of coffee from the first twenty 

 acres planted. His expenses will again be about the same. 

 In the fourth year he will plant twenty acres, pur- 

 chase and erect a pulper and vats, provide himself with 

 trays and mats, prepare and transport about four-and-a- 

 half tons of coffee, and in all spend about twenty-five 

 hundred dollars. In the fifth year again twenty new acres 

 will be planted, and it may be found necessary to purchase 

 another wagon and extra oxen, and more implements 

 and tools. 



He may now erect a small permanent house in the 

 slack season. He will transport and market about fifteen 

 tons of coffee, and his expenses this year will be about 

 forty-seven hundred. From the sixth year onwards he 

 will reasonably expect to make a steadily increasing 

 income, up to, say, five thousand dollars, when the one 

 hundred acres of coffee will have come to full bearing. 

 The value of such an estate at the beginning of the sixth 

 year would be about thirty-five thousand. 



For my part I have found the country full of fascina- 

 tion and variety. It is fertile in the extreme, capable 

 of producing all kinds of fruit. In one garden I counted 

 thirty different kinds of fruit, fifteen of which were 

 bearing simultaneously. 



The policy of past governments has been to encourage 

 white settlement and accordingly certain areas have 

 been set aside entirely for white occupation. Today 

 many Americans and Europeans are availing themselves 



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