Then engage pagazi half a month = August, 5 months of this year will remain for journey, the whole of 1873 will be swallowed up in work, but in February or March, 1874, please the Almighty Disposer of events, I shall complete my task and retire.
_2nd June, 1872._--A second crop here, as in Angola.

The lemons and pomegranates are flowering and putting out young fruits anew, though the crops of each have just been gathered.

Wheat planted a month ago is now a foot high, and in three months will be harvested.

The rice and dura are being reaped, and the hoes are busy getting virgin land ready.
Beans, and Madagascar underground beans, voandzeia and ground-nuts are ripe now.

Mangoes are formed; the weather feels cold, min.