... deeply fixed in the public memory, and to it we wiil now refer by way of showing how the tree of Protestantism was once a bread fruit tree, every way blessed in Mr. GLaDsToNe’s eyes, and how it became transformed in a night into that Upas Tree— that baleful ...

... by Marshall and Gilbert in 1788, and the shallow soil produces cocoa-nuts, pandanus, andja species of the taro. The bread- fruit tree flourishes on some of the islands. The climate is equable, and though the heat is great, it is found less oppressive ...

... crew of H.M.S. Bounty, which was engaged in going from island to island in the South Seas, in 1789 transplanting the bread fruit tree, after a prolonged stay at Tahiti, mutinied ami turned their captain, whose name was Bligh, and all who refused to join ...