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MISSIONARY LIFE 
Their principal vegetables are rice, cocoa, potato, 
sweet-potato, yams, and cassada. The latter two 
grow in great abundance, and are highly prized 
as articles of food. 
Their fruits are, oranges, bananas, limes, plan- 
tains, pine-apples, guavas, papaws, mangoes, 
African cherries, grapes, pears, sour-sops, sweet- 
sops, tamarinds, cocoa-nuts, and plums of various 
kinds. Many of these grow spontaneously, and 
all, as also the vegetables, are as delicious and nu- 
tritious as the fruits and vegetables of this coun- 
try. 
Some of the oils, especially the palm-oil, are 
freely used in the preparation of food, or mixed 
with food after cooking. In the rainy season they 
put a high estimate upon oil ; for, as they say, 
the ^^rice stay longer and keep cold from catch 
them,’’ — meaning, that they do not become hungry 
so soon after eating with oil as without it, and 
that they do not suffer so much from cold. 
