In Afric’s Forest and Jungle 
the bottom. We further purified and cooled it 
by first passing it through a filter and then put¬ 
ting it into a Brazilian cooler. The natives of 
this part of the continent are often afflicted with 
the dreaded “Guinea worm,” and as they in¬ 
sisted that it enters the system with the drinking 
water we concluded we could not be too careful. 
The house was situated in a square of about an 
. acre of ground, enclosed by a wall seven feet 
high. Two other walls connected the surround¬ 
ing wall with either end of the house and divided 
the whole enclosure into two parts, a front and 
a rear. The latter was about half of the first and 
contained our kitchen garden and our fruit trees. 
Tomatoes and arrowroot were the principal 
things grown in the garden except that a pine¬ 
apple hedge extended partly around it. The to¬ 
matoes grew so rapidly that the vines often meas¬ 
ured fifteen or twenty feet, and would even 
climb trees. Besides pineapples, the fruits were 
oranges, limes, guavas, mangoes, soursops and 
pawpaws. The last was the West India species 
(■Carica Papaya) and not only resembled a musk- 
melon but was a very good substitute for it. 
The fruits were all of a very superior quality, 
especially the oranges. 
The front yard was well sodded with Bermuda 
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