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COFFEE-PLANTATIONS. 



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varieties adapted to the convenience of man. For instance, a 

 very short-legged species of fowl was obtained by the Boers, 

 who required one that could be easily caught in their frequent 

 removals. A similar instance of securing a variety occurred 

 in the short-limbed sheep in America. 



Returning into Cazengo by the Lucalla, we had an oppor- 

 tunity of visiting several nourishing coffee-plantations, and 

 observed that several industrious men, who had begun with- 

 out capital, had in the course of a few years acquired a 

 comfortable subsistence. One of these, Mr. Pinto, generously 

 furnished me with a good supply of his excellent coffee, and 

 my men with a breed of rabbits to carry to their own country. 

 Their lands yielded, with but little labour, coffee sufficient 

 to furnish them with all the necessaries of life. The fact 

 of this and other avenues of wealth opening up so readily 

 seems like a providential invitation to forsake the slave-trade 

 and engage in lawful commerce. We saw the female popu- 

 lation occupied, as usual, in spinning < otton and cultivating 

 the land with a double-handled hoe, which is worked with a 



Double-handled Angola hoe. 



sort of dragging motion. Many of the men were employed 

 in weaving, but they appear to be less industrious than the 

 women, for they require a month to finish a single web. 

 There is, however, not much inducement to industry, for, 

 notwithstanding the time consumed in its manufacture, each. 

 web fetches only two shillings. 



