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and servants’ room. a have two servants, both black—cook and house- 
boy. At the back of this, again, I have a little qu in which I have 
the 
planted рерге кин), tomatoes, t ir sop, the Papaw, &c. 
So y е my cile is composed entirely of native materials. The 
palm ыен аге нев n with *tie-tie," a kind of cord or ro 
obtained from R. amigas in common with the mats. It is a jolly 
house, situated on the top of a hill, with a ы er = сен of the 
iger, from which a breeze frequently blows. It is always cool and 
comfortable i in the house even under the fierce glare of the futile? вип, 
am аз comfortable as a king, and as happy аз a sand boy, always 
em. 
мен very good health, and can pummel the recalcitrant members of 
d with ease. Living alone as I do, away from the stations 
amongst my crowd of “ boys” (boys is the term used loue. aad ретт 
when n speakin ng of labour here), men who are unscrupulous, and would 
take the instant advantage of өч boss if it is рок» it is necessary 
to keep the whip hand of them aste 
I have learnt many things Him my short sojourn in this lend of 
Goshen. I have had «4 — pretty hard nearly the whole of the time 
Ihave been out. I work for my own credit you understand. I want to 
keep up the good old name of Kew, too, if I can. We are early birds. 
We turn out between 4.30 and 5. At 5 I have coffee and a snack of 
something. At 5.30 I ring the bell, and the day's X commences 
virtually with daylight. The men work on until 11, and turn to again 
at 12, working until 6. I sees breakfast about 11, and авг at 6.30, 
and 8 o'clock is time to turn 
I am dreadfully busy rags now. About 20,000 coffee and cocoa 
plants and 130 pods of cocoa seed arrived three days ago from Lagos as 
a = instalment for plantation, and there аге more coming ; that means 
bus to d i 
Sunday I had a little shooting practice; I am getting to manage the 
revolver very nicely. Rifles are not new to 
regard to climate, just now it is comparatively cool, as there are 
rains and tornadoes; but until quite recently it has been n blazingly hot, 
The heat in the middle of the day is simply immense. I never stra 
far from the hou ex myself to the sun at any time without 
wearing my pith Бы. People at home may scoff at the helmet, but 
it is with the majority an indispensable а vene in the tropics.’ I could 
not stand the sun a day without my he 
Another matter will interest you. When I left England I was a 
teetotaller and a non-smoker. I am neither now. "Tis true I drink 
scarcely anything ; it is not obtainable. I do not think a man is any 
better in the tropics for teetotallism ; abstinence by all means. Smoking 
also, in some degree, 4T e the plagues of Egypt as represented here 
by mosquitoes and sandfli 
The plants I took ot. are doing very well. The coffee plants at 
Abutshi are very promising. Cocoa and cotton likewise show up well. 
water, per canoe, but died ride. You remember in ‘the economic 
