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other than an occasional supply of beads and calico ; coffee 

 is indigenous, and so is sugar-cane. When detained by 

 ulcerated feet in Manyuema I made sugar by pounding the 

 cane in the common wooden mortar of the country, squeez- 

 ing out the juice very hard and boiling it till thick; the 

 defect it had was a latent acidity, for which I had no lime, 

 and it soon all fermented. I saw sugar afterwards at Ujiji 

 made in the same way, and that kept for months. Wheat and 

 rice are cultivated by the Arabs in all this upland region ; 

 the only thing a missionary needs in order to secure an 

 abimdant supply is to follow the Arab advice as to the 

 proper season for sowing. Pomegranates, guavas, lemons and 

 oranges are abundant in Unyanyembe ; mangoes flourish, 

 and grape vines are beginning to be cultivated ; papaws 

 grow everywhere. Onions, radishes, pumpkins and water- 

 melons prosper, and so would most European vegetables, if 

 the proper seasons were selected for planting, and the most 

 important point attended to in bringing the seeds. These 

 must never be soldered in tins or put in close boxes ; a 

 process of sweating takes place when they are confined, as in 

 a box or hold of the ship, and the power of vegetating is 

 destroyed, but garden seeds put up in common brown 

 paper, and hung in the cabin on the voyage, and not 

 exposed to the direct rays of the sun afterwards, I have 

 found to be as good as in England. 



It would be a sort of Robinson Crusoe life, but with 

 abundant materials for surrounding oneself with comforts, 

 and improving the improvable among the natives. Clothing 

 would require but small expense : four suits of strong- 

 tweed served me comfortably for five years. Woollen 

 clothing is the best ; if all wool, it wears long and prevents 

 chills. The temperature here in the beginning of winter 

 ranges from 62° to 75° Fahr. In summer it seldom goes 

 above 84°, as the country generally is from 3600 to 4000 

 feet high. Gently undulating plains with outcropping 



