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of mimosas, are the most common trees. But among- the 
rocks of Cape Verd are found the date tree, the papaw, and 
the pine apple. The heat is intense during the day, but the 
great coohiess of the night restores to the body that vigour of 
which the continued heat of our own chmate often deprives 
us.* 
Horned cattle and sheep are numerous in this country. 
The Poulas in particular attend to the rearing of them, and 
the profit they make by selling them to Europeans is con- 
siderable. When a grand ceremony takes place, such as 
a marriage or a funeral, they sometimes kill ten oxen, which 
they distribute among their relations and neighbours. 
Most of the village chiefs possess a horse. The other 
domestic animals are camels, pigs, dogs, fowls and ducks ; 
but pigs and dogs are regarded as unclean by Mahome- 
tans, Although the greater part of them have dogs to guard 
their flocks, they rarely give them any thing to eat or 
* Flacour, in the preface to his History of Madagascar, makes the same 
remark on the temperature of that island. " The great heat here is not so 
distressing as that of our summers in France, especially since, the days and 
nights being here almost equal, it does not last so long : and moreover the 
great heat commencing in summer at nine o'clock in the morning, is terminated 
at three in the afternoon; during which time a sea breeze moderates the heat 
even of mid-day in such a manner that I have seldom been incommoded by 
it. This lasts about three or four months of the year, the eight others are a 
perpetual spring, 
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