... upon a people when we bestow upon a vegetable containing much nutritious at once palatable and wholesome, such as the bread fruit tree. Undoubtedly this plant mould be most useful in a temperate climate, if it could be made to grow there, as it would furnish ...

... 20 feet. Mr. Nelson, the botanist, who accompanied Captain Bligh to the South Sees, for the purpose of conveying the bread fruit tree to the West Indies, when on Van Diemisn's Land, found a tree in a thriving state, of the enormous site of feet in girth ...

... sanctioned. For instance, the widow of the great Pomare was brought to trial for ordering her attendant to cut down a bread fruit tree belonging to a poor man. Now (observes Dr. Southey) in this case the law might have been enforced with equal effect ...

... THE BREAD FRUIT TREE. A TALE OF THE SANDWICH ISLES. (From the Times.) I'll tell you a tale of the Southern Seas, You may laugh at, 6r cry at—just as you please. Scant was the growth of kresd , fruit Tree On the beautiful Isle of Owhyhee, While, gift of ...

... things. By that means he could THE BREAD -FRUIT TREE. A TALE OF THE SANDWICH ISLES. tell you a tale of the Southern Seas; You may laugh at, or cry at—just as you please. Scant was the growth of the bread-fruit tree, In the beautiful Isle of Owhyhee, ...