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with a great quantity of palm-trees (Arenga saccharifera), 

 from which palm wine and sugar are made. There were 

 also great numbers of a wild Jack- fruit tree (Artocarpus), 

 which bore abundance of large reticulated fruit, serving 

 as an excellent vegetable. The ground was as thickly 

 covered with dry leaves as it is in an English wood in 

 November ; the little rocky streams were all dry, and 

 scarcely a drop of water or even a damp place was any- 

 where to be seen. About fifty yards below my house, at 

 the foot of the hill, was a deep hole in a watercourse 

 where good water was to be had, and where I went daily 

 to bathe, by having buckets of water taken out and pour- 

 ing it over my body. 



My host Mr. M. enjoyed a thoroughly country life, de- 

 pending almost entirely on his gun and dogs to supply 

 his table. Wild pigs of large size were very plentiful 

 and he generally got one or two a week, besides deer 

 occasionally, and abundance of jungle-fowl, hornbills, and 

 great fruit pigeons. His buffaloes supplied plenty of milk, 

 from which he made his own butter ; he grew his own 

 rice and coffee, and had ducks, fowls, and their eggs in pro- 

 fusion. His palm-trees supplied him all the year round 

 with " sagueir," which takes the place of beer ; and the 

 sugar made from them is an excellent sweetmeat. All 

 the fine tropical vegetables and fruits were abundant in 

 their season, and his cigars were made from tobacco of his 



