A kind of very short-legged fowl among the Boers was obtained, in consequence of observing that such were more easily caught for transportation in their frequent removals in search of pasture.

A similar instance of securing a variety occurred with the short-limbed sheep in America.
Returning by ascending the Lucalla into Cazengo, we had an opportunity of visiting several flourishing coffee plantations, and observed that several men, who had begun with no capital but honest industry, had, in the course of a few years, acquired a comfortable subsistence.

One of these, Mr.Pinto, generously furnished me with a good supply of his excellent coffee, and my men with a breed of rabbits to carry to their own country.

Their lands, granted by government, yielded, without much labor, coffee sufficient for all the necessaries of life.
The fact of other avenues of wealth opening up so readily seems like a providential invitation to forsake the slave-trade and engage in lawful commerce.

We saw the female population occupied, as usual, in the spinning of cotton and cultivation of their lands.