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the foulah (gardener) brought, amongst other things, 

 a few bits of wood, without any roots or leaf, about 

 eighteen inches long and three in circumference , which 

 he with a large stone knocked into the ground. See- 

 ing the fellow thus employed, I asked him what he 

 meant by trifling in that way? ' I am not trifling,' 

 said he, l but planting your pomegranate trees.' I 

 began to take them out of the ground; but some 

 persons who were near assuring me that it was the 

 mode in which they were always planted, and that 

 they would (with the blessing of God) take root and 

 shoot forth leaves the next year, I was at length pre- 

 vailed on to leave a few in the ground, merely for 

 experiment; and they certainly did take root, and 

 were in a fair way of becoming good trees when I 

 left Santa Cruz." 



