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When finished with hinges, lock, and key, all of their own manufacture, one costs only a shilling and eightpence.
My men were so delighted with them that they carried several of them on their heads all the way to Linyanti. At Trombeta we were pleased to observe a great deal of taste displayed by the sub-commandant in the laying out of his ground and adornment of his house with flowers.
This trifling incident was the more pleasing, as it was the first attempt at neatness I had seen since leaving the establishment of Mozinkwa in Londa.
Rows of trees had been planted along each side of the road, with pine-apples and flowers between.
This arrangement I had an opportunity of seeing in several other districts of this country, for there is no difficulty in raising any plant or tree if it is only kept from being choked by weeds. This gentleman had now a fine estate, which but a few years ago was a forest, and cost him only 16 Pounds.
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