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from view. It is flowing from the north, and Palabala lies 
nearly due east. The path thither leads you through two 
or three native villages of a comfortable and prosperous 
appearance, and suggesting here and there by certain 
cunning shifts and contrivances that their inhabitants are 
not bereft of savoir vivre. There are well-cultured plots 
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of maize and manioc, here and there a lime, and even an 
orange tree (these latter rare), papaw trees, and the 
beautiful passion-flower, which gives the fruit known as 
maracuja or grenadilla, is carefully trained over a frame- 
work of sticks. Little beds of earth are being assiduously 
hoed, and are marked out with geometrical accuracy. by 
