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COFFEE. 



Lat. 10°) ; and, as it is found on the Western Coast 

 growing wild about the Rivers Nunez and Pongo 

 (N. Lat. 10° 1'), it probably extends in a broken 

 band across the Continent. There appear to be 

 many varieties of the shrub. In Karagwah 

 the wild bean is little bigger than a pin's head. 

 Harar exports a peculiarly large species, which 

 sells as Mocha, and the Mozambique coffee does 

 not at all resemble in flavour that of West 

 Africa. Dr Livingstone (Missionary Travels, 

 chap, x.) tells us that coffee brought from South- 

 ern Arabia to Angola by the Jesuits was spread 

 probably by agency of birds to 300 leagues 

 from the coast. It has long been 6 monkeys' 

 food,' but it is now worked by the ex-slavers. 



Indigo here, as well as in most parts of inter- 

 tropical Africa, grows wild. The great expense 

 of establishments, with the time and trouble, the 

 skill and attention required for the manufacture, 

 will leave it in the hands of Nature for many 

 years to come. 



Tobacco might be raised : the plant extends 

 thoughout Eastern and Central Africa, wherever 

 the equinoctial rains fall. Usumbara exports to 

 Zanzibar stiff, thin, round cakes which have been 

 pounded in wooden mortars, and neatly packed 

 in plantain leaves. It is dark and well -flavoured : 



