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The lljxifu. — A large and handsome timber-tree, with a fruit 

 something like an olive, from which a sweet-scented oil is ex- 

 tracted, and under the bark an aromatic gum is found. Is 

 common from the western side of the Tanganyika to the com- 

 mencement of Lovale. 



Niitmegs were found close to the eastern shore of Tangan- 

 yika, near the town of Russuna, and at Munza. The fruit 

 was very strong and pungent. 



Pepper. — The common black pepper was common at ISTyan- 

 gwe. Chillies, large and small, are found everywhere ; and in 

 Manyuema and Urua there grows a pepper so excessively hot, 

 that Arabs wdio would eat bird's-eye chillies by handfuis were 

 unable to touch it. It is a small, round, red fruit about the size 

 of a marble. 



Timher-trees. — There are trees available for every purpose — 

 some hard and others soft — and sufficiently numerous to supply 

 all the wants of the country, and, no doubt, to form profitable 

 articles of export. 



nice is profitably cultivated by the Arabs wherever they 

 have settled, and in Urua is said to yield a hundred-fold. In 

 Ufipa it grows wild. 



Wheat. — Abundant crops of wheat are raised by the Arabs 

 at Unyanyembe and Ujiji, and they were trying, apparently 

 with success, to introduce it at Nyangwe. On the high lands 

 round Unyanyembe, and in those of Bihe and Bailunda, it 

 might undoubtedly be made profitable. 



HoIgus sorghum., better known as matama, or Kaffir corn, is 

 grown throughout tlie country, both in dry and wet situations. 

 In the latter, it is not planted till the end of the rainy season, 

 but in both its yield is enormous. 



Indian corn is grown everywhere ; and where there is a 

 long rainy season, three crops are often produced by the same 

 patch of ground in eight months. Each crop yields from a 

 hundred and fifty to two hundred fold- 



India-rubber. — Vines, trees, or small shrubs producing this 

 valuable article of commerce are to be met with nearly every- 

 where. 



Copal may be considered as a vegetable, though now a 

 semi -fossil. It is principally obtained near the Lufiji River, 



