Delagoa Bay : its Natives and Natural History. By Rose
Montiero. (Philip and Son.)—Mrs. Montiero has much that is amusing to tell us about men and things at Lorenzo Marques, with which she has had an acquaintance of some years' standing. It has im- proved, she tells us, during the last thirteen years, and its natural advantages were always great (though the climate is not described in attractive terms) ; but we do not carry away a high idea of Portuguese government. The ways of the Kaffir servants are described in amusing fashion. English ladies whose patience fails them here, would be benefited by an experience of these domestics,—the boy, for instance, who one morning, " in a severe fit of absence of mind," sent up the bread boiled and the eggs raw, in lieu of the customary eggs and toast. The chapters on natural history will be found highly interesting. Delagoa Bay is a good hunting-ground for the naturalist, and not too unhealthy.
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