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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

CHAPTER 19
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But we went on to a spot where orange-trees had been planted by the natives themselves, and where abundance of that refreshing fruit was exposed for sale.
On entering the district of Ambaca, we found the landscape enlivened by the appearance of lofty mountains in the distance, the grass comparatively short, and the whole country at this time looking gay and verdant.

On our left we saw certain rocks of the same nature with those of Pungo Andongo, and which closely resemble the Stonehenge group on Salisbury Plain, only the stone pillars here are of gigantic size.

This region is all wonderfully fertile, famed for raising cattle, and all kinds of agricultural produce, at a cheap rate.

The soil contains sufficient ferruginous matter, to impart a red tinge to nearly the whole of it.

It is supplied with a great number of little flowing streams which unite in the Lucalla.


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