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about 4,000 Sansevieria guineensis, and planted them; the leaves grow 
quite 5 feet long, and produce splendid hemp. They are difficult to get, 
as they are only found here and there like most things out here. I hope 
some day to have a good turn in the bush, but I am afraid it will be 
that you must not Керен much from me at present. The only things 
we hav been very successful with are Cephaelis о черен апа 
back ; І have just go ot them round again, and hope they will о better. 
Tea grows well here; at present we have the six plants sat out of 
sg = and I have 12 cuttings struek. They grow without any shade, 
keep nice and green Some of them have made 1 foot of new 
wth in a month, which I should think was good. We have nearly 
two hundred of Piper nigrum and the Patchouli about the same. Piper 
longum grows very отуу, and will not suit here at all. І have had 
; they аге all up, and some planted out— Bau- 
hinias, Sesba ilr Salvia coccinea, &c., which will help us in 
the flower vn ini nothing of much value. We are just about com- 
mencing the rainy season, w «и гада See must be planted out to be 
able to stand "ihe next dry season. І expect уе shall have to start a 
cotton plantation this year; I hace sent home a sample, although not a 
good one, as they were late being sown, owing to my shifting from one 
place to another, and they had not finished their growth when the dry 
season set in. The tobacco from seed of our own saving from the few 
lants I managed to bring from Asaba, have done much better this 
time, and I hope this year we shall get some fine leaves. If we succeed, 
we can grow two crops in the year. I find that as we get the ground 
put out next year; they are co арн very well, so for. They 
ike six weeks to germinate, 9 іп Mas timethey have so many chances 
of being washed in by tornadoe 
мае a going up or coming down stops * == so that there could 
not be a better place for a botanie garden, and we are always six in the 
house, and all very nice men. We live well, better than what you 
would think in so wild a country. We have coffee at 5.80 a.m., 
breakfast 10 a.m., е 2 p.m., dinner 6.30 p.m. We have very 
little expenditure ; ; even our washing is done, for a washman is kept 
on the place. I saved 1007. during my first year, and I expect there 
are few places going nowadays where you can do that 
The other plantation is quite away from anybody ; you u have your own 
house steward, cook, &c., &c., and are master of your own house, and 
when it is all planted it will be a fine place. The house is built about 
to live down among the swamps that it is so trying; altogether, a man 
can be quite happy out here H he keeps his health. À little sickness out 
here pulls one down very m 
The way I shade my Duis is this: I have beds made 4 feet 
wide, leaving a walk 3 feet petere each. We then get forked pos 
abont 3 feet out of the ground, tie bamboos right along the forked 
sticks; then put bamboos across (7 top, and cover with palm leaves, 
