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einetus, and the pretty little lorikeet, Triciioglossus euteles. 

 I got a few more of these at the blossoms of the Eucalypti, 

 and also the allied species Triciioglossus iris, and a few 

 other small but interesting birds. The common jungle- 

 cock of India (Gallus bankiva) was found here, and fur- 

 nished us with some excellent meals ; but we could get no 

 deer. Potatoes are grown higher up the mountains in 

 abundance, and are very good. We had a sheep killed 

 every other day, and ate our mutton with much appetite 

 in the cool climate which rendered a fire always agreeable. 

 ' Although one-half the European residents in Delli are 

 continually ill from fever, and the Portuguese have occupied 

 the place for three centuries, no one has yet built a house 

 on these fine hills, which, if a tolerable road were made, 

 would be only an hour's ride from the town ; and almost 

 equally good situations might be found on a lower level at 

 half an hour's distance. The fact that potatoes and wheat 

 of excellent quality are grown in abundance at from 3,000 

 to 3,500 feet elevation, shows what the climate and soil 

 are capable of if properly cultivated. From one to two 

 thousand feet high, coffee would thrive ; and there are 

 hundreds of square miles of country, over which all the 

 varied products which require climates between those of 

 coffee and wheat woidd flourish ; but no attempt has yet 

 been made to form a single mile of road, or a single acre 

 of plantation ! 



