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VEGETATION. 



footpaths, instead of the broad roads required 

 for the ventilation of the country. When the 

 produce of the land is valuable the lanes are 

 lined with cactus, milk-bush (euphorbia), and 

 succulent plants, whose foliage shines with me- 

 tallic lustre. Set in little ridges, the hedge-rows 

 of pine-apple, with its large pink and crimson 

 fruit, passing, when ripe, into a reddish-yellow, 

 form a picturesque and pleasant fence. At a 

 distance from the town the paths become rough 

 and solitary. Kearer, they are well beaten by 

 negroes of both sexes and all ages, carrying fuel 

 or baskets of fruit upon their heads, or bringing 

 water from the wells, or loitering under shady 

 trees to cheapen the cocoa-nut, manioc, and 

 broiled fish, offered by squatting negresses for 

 their refection. 



Section 2. 



Meteorological Notes — The Double Seasons, &c. 



The characteristic of meteorology at Zanzi- 

 bar, as generally the case in the narrow equa- 



