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tered scent. Pine-apples too (Bromelm] we may gather if 

 we will ; not like the hothouse Pine-apples, but a reddish 

 kind. And here, in this African heat, as parched with 

 thirst we pluck an orange from the tree or taste the cooling 

 Tamarinds, we adore the goodness of God, which has ar- 

 ranged such fitness between the hot climate and its refresh- 

 ing fruits. 



Botanizing a little as we go, we find the Tamarinds be- 

 long to the Leguminous family ; and presently we fall in 

 with a tree of the Myrtle tribe, which we find is the Guava. 

 On the outskirts of the forest we are attracted by " bright 

 green Plantains, and the slender Palm, shooting up from 

 the dark foliage of the neighbouring fruit-trees," a sure 

 index that we are near human dwellings ; and, to our sur- 

 prise, we suddenly come upon a large wide street of well- 

 built Bamboo-houses with gable ends, thatched with Palm- 

 leaves, and stained with red and yellow ochre. Here and 

 there huge trees cast a vast shade across the street, affording 

 a cool retreat from the sun ; their trunks en wreathed with 

 the Convolvulus-like Ipomwa in full blossom, pale blue or 

 deepest violet, mingled with the yellow flowers of a climb- 

 ing plant called Thunlergia, the calyx of which is two- 

 lipped, and the corolla more or less irregular. 



