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to throw myself upon his hospitality he remarked, ‘‘We cannot 
permit a white man to stop here. I will send for your baggage 
at once.” After observing the British custom usually indulged 
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lover of plants and flowers and was particularly well versed in 
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legua is situated about 2314 degrees south latitude, owing t 
its elevation in the valley it is visited by occasional killing 
frosts, which last winter were so severe that the entire banana 
bunches nanas and entailing a further loss of twel onths’ 
pro i Citrus fruits and sugar 4 » not 
seriously da The coffee plantations several thousand 
aged. c 
eet up in the hills were completely destroyed and as this crop 
has not proven profitable, owing to the scarcity of labor, it has 
been abandoned. This Leach estate, comprising everything in 
sight, includes thousands of square miles of surrounding country. 
The fertile lands of the valley are devoted principally to the culture 
of sugar cane, which is sent to an adjoining estate of the same 
corporation, for grinding, and thousands of acres are successfully 
devoted to the culture of bananas. Recently the cultivation of 
citrus fruits has been undertaken and it is Mr. Smythe's chief 
concern and delight to further this culture, leaving the better 
understood crops to younger members of his staff. Here also 
prenenune throughout the year, is precipitated in three or four 
consecutive months, thus leaving the remainder of the year with- 
