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to follow as soon as possible. We bad been at sea forty- 
six days, and were amply prepared to enjoy tbe few short 
hours thus considerately granted us. 
Let me make an extract from my journal in regard to 
Anger. 
We had anchored near it during the night — At day- 
light a beautiful sight spread itself out before us; a low, 
undulating country, backed by the blue mountains of the 
interior, and fronted by dense groves of the cocoanut, 
of the mangostecn, and of the banana, had taken the 
place of our interminable sea-horizon, and refreshed the 
vision while it also promised an abundant supply of the 
most delicious fruits. 
“While I yet admired this grateful change through a 
glass, a dozen or more Malay boats pulled alongside of 
us, whose occupants soon gave us to understand that 
they were a most noisy set of people. Their boats were 
laden to their gunwales with fruit, vegetables, and ani- 
mals of a dozen different species, — live stock in abun- 
dance for the table, and various unknown animals to 
tempt the cui'iosity of the naturalist. 
“We found every thing very cheap: — chickens one 
dollar the dozen; eggs ditto the hundred; and the fruit 
absolutely being thrown away. Everybody smiled com- 
placently, looked ahead two hours, and made an ima- 
ginary breakfast upon broiled chickens, soft-boiled eggs, 
and mangostcens. ’ ' 
lieader, have you ever eaten a mangosteen ? It is by 
far the most delicious fruit in the world; it puts the 
cheremoya of Peru to the blush, and doesn’t show 
strawberries-and-cream the shade of a chance : it is worth 
