248 COFFEE-ESTATE. 



streams which never dry. They unite in the Luinha (pro- 

 nounced Lueenya) and Lucalla. As they flow over many 

 little cascades, they might easily be turned to good account; 

 but they are all allowed to run on idly to the ocean. We 

 passed through forests of gigantic timber, and, at an open 

 space named Cambondo, about eight miles from Golungo 

 Alto, found numbers of carpenters converting these lofty 

 trees into planks, in exactly the same manner as was fol- 

 lowed by the illustrious Eobinson Crusoe. A tree of three 

 or four feet in diameter and forty or fifty feet up to the 

 nearest branches was felled. It was then cut into lengths 

 of a few feet, and split into thick junks, which again were 

 reduced to planks an inch thick by persevering labor with 

 the axe. The object of the carpenters was to make little 

 chests, and they drive a constant trade in them at Cam- 

 bondo. When finished with hinges, lock, and key, all of 

 their own manufacture, one costs only a shilling and eight- 

 pence. My men were so delighted with them that they 

 carried several of them on their heads all the way to 

 Linyanti. 



At Trombeta we were pleased to observe a great deal oi 

 taste displayed by the sub-commandant in the laying out 

 of his ground and adornment of his house with flowers. 

 This trifling incident was the more pleasing, as it was the 

 first attempt at' neatness I had seen since leaving the esta- 

 blishment of Mozinkwa in Londa. Rows of trees had 

 been planted along each side of the road, with pineapples 

 and flowers between. This arrangement I had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing in several other districts of this country, 

 for there is no difficulty in raising any plant or tree if it is 

 only kept from being choked by weeds. 



This gentleman had now a fine estate, which but a few 

 years ago was a forest and cost him only £16. He had 

 planted about nine hundred coffee-trees upon it, and as 

 these begin to yield in three years from being planted, and 

 in six attain their maximum, I have no doubt but that ere 

 now his £16 yields him sixty-fold. All sorts of fruit-trees 



