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Taveita and on the River Tana. Tobacco is every¬ 
where abundant, and exceedingly cheap. 
I might mention my own almost incredible experience 
with the cultivation of European vegetables on Kili- 
ma-njaro. Immediately after my arrival, I planted the 
eyes of a few potatoes, onion bulbs, and the seeds of 
mustard, cress, radishes, turnips, carrots, peas, beans, 
spinach, borage, sage, tomatoes, cucumbers, and 
melons. Everything came up and flourished amazingly. 
In three months’ time I had a dozen fine cucumbers from 
one plant, and so many potatoes that I was able to give 
them away to my men, as well as supplying my own 
table. I had everything else in abundance in a short 
space of time. Before leaving, I had planted my land 
at Taveita with wheat and coflee, limes, oranges, 
mangoes, and cocoanuts. I also distributed numbers 
of useful seeds among the natives. 
I should have mentioned in its proper place before 
the vegetables, that there is a great quantity of 
delicious honey produced throughout this district. 
The wax is of very good quality, but the natives have 
no use for it, and merely throw it away. 
I might now, perhaps, briefly summarize the principal 
trade products, and in some cases give their cost in the 
interior and on the coast. At present, no doubt, the 
most paying thing is ivory. This may be bought in the 
Masai countries, between the Victoria Nyanza and the 
coast, at the rate of from, one to two shillings a pound, 
according to quality. When I refer to money in the 
interior, I mean money’s worth in cloth or other trade 
goods. On the coast ivory sells from six to ten shillings 
a pound, sometimes reaching a higher price. 
Hides may be almost got for nothing in the interior, 
and merely cost the expense of transit. On the coast 
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