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Buffaloes were seen wallowing in weedy ponds, or browsing 

 placidly among the bamboo mazes, or, with enduring 

 patience, engaged in drawing burdens ; here and there, 

 at various turnings, quaintly carved and antique wooden 

 crosses would remind you of being in a Catholic, though 

 savage country, while the open hospitality of the villagers, 

 and the vows of brotherhood and eternal friendship prof- 

 fered you in every direction, brought to mind the prodigal 

 liberality of their noble-minded Spanish subjugators. 



It would be endless to enumerate all of the botanical 

 beauties of Samboanga, but the handsome scarlet flowers 

 of the Poinciana, the feathery foliage of the Tamarind, 

 the grateful Guava, and the Palms, those " magnificent 

 offspring of Tellus and Phaebus ; " the agreeable subacid 

 fruit of the Tambeio, the large dense foliage "of the Bread- 

 fruit, and the aromatic Lime and Orange, were all worthy 

 of the passing notice of the student of nature. 



To these may be added the Bugo, or Piper Betel, 

 climbing gracefully in the gardens ; with its less illus- 

 trious compeer the Sanquilo (P. obliquurti), the Dyospyros 

 embriopteris, or Luya, the Mango {Mangifera Indicd), 

 ihGLumboi(Calyptrant/tes), theBixa, or Achote; another 

 species of Dyospyros, called by the natives " Mabolo ; " 

 the Balibago, a kind of Hibiscus, the Balod, or Nauclea, 

 the Tubadalag, or Callicarpa, and the luxuriant groves of 

 the Caurayan, or Bambusa ; the graceful hanging foliage, 

 and brilliant berries of the Abrus precatoria, the lofty 

 trunk, and stupendous pods of the Cassia yrandis, the 

 long and pendent fruit of the singular Stravadium album, 

 the bell-shaped flowers of the succulent viviparous-leaved 

 Bryophyllum calyc'mum, the elegant climbing Clitoria ler- 



