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and the alfandega, or custom-house, which has a poor platform, but no pier. The stables lodge some half-a-dozen horses used by mounted orderlies--they thrive, and, to judge from their high spirits, the climate suits them. In Captain Owen's time (A.D. 1826) there was
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Fish is wisely preferred to meat by the white man,
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and a kind of herring, and the sparus known upon the Brazilian coast as the
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the West African
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and the French
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at times superabound. All the tropical fruits flourish, especially the orange; the exotic vegetables are large and sightly, but tasteless and insipid, especially peas and radishes: the indigenous, as tomatoes, are excellent, but the list is small. Gardens are rare where the soil is so thin, and the indispensable irrigation costs money. The people still
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which must be bought: there is only one good well sunk in the upper town, about 1840, when the Conde de Bomfim was Minister of Marine and the Colonies,--it is a preserve for government officials. Living in the native style is cheap; but cooks are hardly procurable, and a decent table is more expensive than in an English country town. A single store (M. Schutz) supplies
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Europe articles, of course at fancy prices, and here a travelling outfit may be bought. It has been remarked that Loanda has no shop that sells