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four bearers will carry, at a steady pace, at the 
rate of six miles per hour. 
At the time of our visit there were few fruits 
ripe ; but when we were about to sail, the mango 
of delicious flavour began to be common; be^ 
sides which there were cocoa-nuts, guavas, pa- 
paws, grapes, the letchy (or let-chis, a Chinese 
fruit), and some indiflerent pine-apples. The 
ship’s company were supplied daily with fresh 
beef and vegetables. The latter were procured in 
abundance at the bazaar, and were exceedingly 
fine, particularly carrots and cabbages of an 
unusually large size, and fine flavour. Bullocks 
are imported into the island from Madagascar, 
in which trade there are two vessels constantly 
engaged during the fine season. 
Horses are very scarce; they are imported 
from the Cape of Good Hope, and fetch a high 
price: a cargo of a hundred and seventy- seven 
mules arrived from Buenos Ayres while we were 
at Port Louis, which, on being sold by auction, 
averaged each one hundred and eighty dollars. 
To encourage the importation of these useful 
animals, a premium of five dollars is offered by 
the government for every mule that is brought 
alive to the island. 
The circulating medium was principally of 
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Sept. 27. 
