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Buffaloes are generally employed on the farms, and we drank buffalo milk, which was brought into the house in bamboo buckets. It was as thick as cream and in order to keep it fluid during the day it was diluted with water. Among the many curious trees we saw, was the sugar-palm, from which the usual beverage of the country is made called sagueir. It is as strong as ordinary beer.
The chief products are best exhibited in connection with the four botanical zones into which Junghuhn has divided the island according to elevation: I. From the seaboard Tropical. Rice, sugar, cinnamon, to 2000 feet. cotton, maize. II. From 2000 feet to Moderately hot. Coffee, tea, cinchona, 4500 feet. sugar-palm. III. From 4500 feet to Moderately cool.
There was also a tall, ornamental stand resembling a candelabrum, made of wood and decorated with a profusion of long, slightly twisted strips of leaves from the sugar-palm, which hung down to the floor. From here nine men returned to our last camping-place, where they had left a similar feast in order to serve me.
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