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colic and dysentery are cured by a calabash full of 
lime-juice, “ laced ” with red pepper. The pecu¬ 
liarity of European vegetables throughout maritime 
Congo and Angola is the absence of all flavour 
combined with the finest appearance; it seems 
as though something in the earth or atmosphere 
were wanting to their full development. Similarly, 
though in the upper regions the climate is de¬ 
licious, the missionaries could not keep themselves 
alive, but died of privation, hardship, and fatigue. 
