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white and better still ; what I have seen is of a greenish 

 tinge after it is boiled. 



[Amongst the articles brought to the coast the men took 

 care not to lose a number of seeds which they found in 

 Dr. Livingstone's boxes after his death. These have been 

 placed in the hands of the authorities at Kew, and we may 

 hope that in some instances they have maintained vitality. 



It is a great pity that there is such a lack of enterprise 

 in the various European settlements on the East Coast of 

 Africa. Were it otherwise a large trade in valuable woods- 

 and other products would assuredly spring up. Ebony and 

 lignum vitas abound ; Dr. Livingstone used hardly any other 

 fuel when he navigated the Pioneer, and no wood was found 

 to make such " good steam." India-rubber may be had for 

 the collecting, and we see that even the natives know some 

 of the dye-woods, besides which the palm-oil tree is found, 

 indigo is a weed everywhere, and coffee is indigenous.] 



