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be bought at nearly as low a price as in 
England. We are always supplied with 
goat’s milk, which is so much like cow’s 
milk in taste, that in tea or coffee the dif¬ 
ference is not perceptible. Little flocks of 
quiet, meek-eyed goats, with immensely dis¬ 
tended udders, are driven through the streets 
eveiy morning to supply the inhabitants 
with milk, fresh and genuine. The drivers 
of these animated milk-pails utter the most 
doleful cries, which at so early an hour are 
rather disturbing. 
Is it not delightful to dwell in a land 
where the finest oranges in the world may 
be bought for threepence a dozen ? I 
believe they may be obtained at a much 
lower rate, for the Maltese tradesmen, like 
those of other countries, frequently ask for 
their commodities double the price they may 
be persuaded to take. The oranges here are 
