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staple products of the country; the mountain slopes of 
the larger islands, especially those of Viti Levu, Vanua 
Levu, and Kadavu, and, above all, those of the valley of 
Namosi, seeming well adapted for its growth. Several 
old coffee-trees are to be found in the Rewa district, 
showing the plant to be not of recent introduction. 
Dr. Brower, American Consul, has established a plan- 
tation on his estate at Wakaya, which gives fair pro- 
mise; and Mr. Binner, of Levuka, has in his garden a 
number of thriving seedlings. The tamarind (Tamarin- 
dus Indica, Linn.) was introduced about eighteen years 
ago; and there is a fine tree, thirty feet high, and of 
corresponding dimensions, on the Somosomo estate of 
Captain Wilson and M. Joubert, of Sydney. 
Tobacco (Nicotiana Tabacum, Linn.), a pink-flowering 
kind, is grown about towns and villages in patches, 
never exceeding a few rods in extent, but in sufficient 
quantity to keep the bulk of the population sup- 
plied. Both men and women use it for smoking only, 
either out of pipes or made into cigarettes with dry 
banana-leaves; the filthy habit of chewing or taking 
snuff does not seem to be practised by them, though, 
had they been so inclined, they might have learned it 
from the lower class of white settlers. Being unac- 
quainted with the process of curing the leaf successfully, 
the natives greatly prefer our tobacco to their own, and 
are thankful for the gift of a piece, however small, but 
rather loth to regard it in the light of payment for 
goods or services rendered, preferring any other article 
of barter, inferior though it may be in value to the to- 
bacco offered. 
