Chap. XIX. 
COFFEE ESTATE. 
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which never dry. They miite in the Luinlia (pronounced Lii- 
eenya) and Lucalla. As they flow over many little cascades, 
tliey might easily be turned to good account, but they are all 
allowed to run on idly to the ocean. We passed tlirough forests 
of gigantic timber, and at an open space named Cambondo, about 
eight miles from Golungo Alto, found numbers of carpenters 
converting these lofty trees into planks, in exactly the same 
manner as was followed by the illustrious Eobinson Crusoe. A 
tree of three or fom’ 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 spht into thick junks, which again were reduced 
to planks an inch tliick by persevering labour with the axe. The 
object of the carpenters was to make little chests, and they drive 
a constant trade in them at Cambondo. When finished with 
hinges, lock, and key, all of thefr own manufacture, one costs 
only a shilhng and eightpence. My men were so delighted with 
them that they carried several of them on their heads all the way 
to Linyanti. 
At Trombeta, we were pleased to observe a great deal of taste 
displayed by the Sub-Commandant, in the laying out of his 
ground, and adornment of his house with flowers. This triflmg 
incident was the more pleasing, as it was the first attempt at 
neatness I had seen since leaving the establishment of Mozinkwa 
in Londa. Eows of trees had been planted along each side of 
the road, with pine-apples and flowers between. This arrange¬ 
ment I had an opportunity of seeing in several other districts of 
this country, for there is no difficulty in raising any plant or tree, 
if it is only kept from being choked by weeds. 
Tlris gentleman had now a fine estate which but a few years 
ago was a forest, and cost him only 10^. He had planted about 
900 coffee-trees upon it, and as these begin to yield in three 
years from being planted, and in six attain their maximum, I 
have no doubt but that ere now his 167 yields him sixty fold. 
AU sorts of fruit-trees and grape-vines yield their fruit twice 
in each year, without any labour or frrigation being bestowed on 
them. All grains and vegetables if only sown do the same, and if 
advantage is taken of the mists of winter, even three crops of pulse 
may be raised. Cotton was now standing in the pods in his fields, 
and he did not seem to care about it. I understood him to say 
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