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COFFEE-ESTATE. 
stroams which never dry. They unite in the Luinha (pro- 
nounced Lueenya) and Lucalla. As thoy flow over many 
little cascades, they might easily be turned to good account: 
but they aro all allowed to run on idly to the ocean. We 
passed through forests of gigantic timber, and, at an opon 
space named Cambondo, about eight miles from Golungo 
Alto, fbund numbers of carpcntors converting these lofty 
trees into planks, in oxaetly tho samo manner as was fol- 
lowed by tho illustrious Eobinson Crusoe. A troo of three 
or four feet in diameter and forty or fifty feet up to the 
nearest branches was felled. It was then cut into lengths 
of a few feet, and split into thick junks, which again woro 
reduced to planks an inch thick by persevoring labor with 
tho axe. Tho object of tho carpenters was to mako little 
chests, and they drivo a constant trado in them at Cam- 
bondo. When finished with hinges, lock, and koy, all of 
their own manufacture, ono costs only a shilling and oight- 
pence. My men woro so delighted with them that thoy 
carriod several of them on their heads all the way to 
Linyanti. 
At Trombota wo were pleased to observe a great deal of 
taste displayed by tho sub-commandant in tho laying out 
of his ground and adornment of his house with flowers- 
This trifling incident was tho more pleasing, as it was the 
first attempt at neatness I had scon since leaving tho esta- 
blishment of Mozinkwa in Londa. Eows of trocs had 
been planted along each side of tho road, with pineapple® 
and flowers botwoen. This arrangement I had an oppor- 
tunity of seeing in sovoral other districts of this country) 
for thoro is no difficulty in raising any plant or troo if it ia 
only kopt from being choked by weeds. 
This gentloman had now a fine cstato, which but a to* 
yoam ago was a forest and cost him only £16. Ho had 
planted about nine hundrod coffeo-trecs upon it, and » s 
these begin to yield in throo years from being planted, » nd 
in six attain their maximum, I havo no doubt but that ero 
now his £1 6 yields him sixty-fold. All sorts of fruit-troe® 
