The houses are all large and bright with yellow tinged whitewash, and the place is completely embowered in palms and other tropical trees.

The native town lies hidden from sight among trees on low ground to the left of the town.

Everywhere around the town the hills rise steep and high, wooded to the summit.

Altogether there are few more prettily situated towns than the capital of Sierra Leone.
"It is wonderful," Mr.Goodenough said, "that generations and generations of Europeans have been content to live and die in that wretchedly unhealthy place, when they might have established themselves on those lofty hills but a mile away.

There they would be far above the malarious mists which rise from the low ground.