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natives, though they would not take beads in ex- 
change from us, were obliged to submit to see the 
Turks knock them over with sticks, and walk away 
without payment. The vegetable products were 
tobacco, murwa, a few sweet potatoes, and the stringy 
seed-vessel of a species of mallow, called here bamea. 
The cultivations were all at least a mile away from 
where the people dwelt, probably to allow a cleared 
space for their cattle to range. The field-hoe had a 
handle as long as the English one ; it was large and 
heavy, but preferred to those made in Unyoro, which 
were refused here when offered in exchange for sweet 
potatoes. 
As has already been mentioned, the situation chosen 
at Faloro by the Turks was a very pleasant one. We 
were surrounded by low hills, the country afforded 
delightful rambles by rocky streams, through forests, 
and over downs, with distant prospects. The plants 
gathered were many of them new and interesting. A 
plum-tree, having fruit larger than the green-gage, 
was found in the woods, and large black caterpillars 
of great beauty, armed with rows of white porcupine- 
like spikes, fed upon its leaves. A species of silver 
bush (Protea sp.), its flowers spread out like a silvery 
sunflower, with its scaly calix a pink colour under- 
neath, was interesting. A tree-climber (Landolphia 
jlorida f) lay with its trunk winding like a huge snake, 
and then serving as a bridge to the stream. If traced 
further, you found it had mounted a lofty tree, and 
spread itself into innumerable branches, covering with 
luxuriant white flowers the highest foliage. The 
natives of Uhiyow convert its milk into playing-balls, 
like those of india-rubber, and consider the rubber 
