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hoped that tliis example will be followed. Turning his 

 attention to cotton planting, he required that every man 

 should plant a certain number of cotton trees ; this was done, 

 of course, but in spite of the most stringent regulations the 

 crop had never been gathered in anything like a satis- 

 factory state ; time and practice Avill however cure this. 



The principal articles of commerce in request by the 

 natives are clothing, cotton prints, hardware, &c., which they 

 pay for in silver or in oil, yams, pork, and poultrj'. 





DOTJBLE CA>'OE, 



The climate is very moist during the summer, ^vith a 

 mean annual temperature of 84° Fahr. in the shade. The 

 months of December, January, February, are debihtating 

 in the extreme on account of the excessive heat and heavy 

 rains in that season. Intermittent fevers, dysentery, phthisis, 

 scrofula, are the most common diseases. Hooping-cough, 

 which made its first appearance in 1864, has been fatal in 

 a number of instances. In ordinary years the mortality 



