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... 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 ...

Published: Monday 05 September 1892
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4278 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Anginal Cormponbencr

... the Arcea (producing (be Betel Not with which the Chineae beaux and belle* dye their teeth rad colour), the Mango, the Bread Fruit tree, the Camphor, the Sugar Cane, (he Bamboo. the plant that yields the gum of which Indian robber manufactured, and (ha ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1823
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4192 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DETECTIVE

... lovers is up, high up, amongst the branches of bread-fruit tree. score times; have I, walking round a plantation on a moonlight night, spied couples perched feet from the ground in the bread-fruit trees, one on each side of tha trunk, a position which ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1886
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7697 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PU.I Vf AL REMAINS

... been found considerable numbers In the state of Ohio, and in the vicinity of Ohio river. Among these plants, are the bread-fruit tree, the species of palm which produces the cocoanut. and the bamboo. The writer states that he has in his possession the ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1827
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HURRICANE HAVOC

... casualties, some of them fatal, has occurred among the natives. serious aspect of the damage is the wholesale destruction of bread-fruit trees which supply the natives with the main part cf their food. The hurricane carried the steamer Lady Roberts on to the inner ...

Published: Tuesday 05 January 1926
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

moll fanguine expeEtations. The tiatives, by kind treatment, had been rendered perfeftly docile, aid had in a ..

... commercial vantages to to accrue to Great-Britaint Tne Providence Hoop, in which Captain Bligh it about to embark on a fecond bread-fruit tree expedition, mounts 16 carriage guns; the meafures 400 tons burthen, and her upperdeck is flufli throughoia; independent ...

Published: Friday 03 June 1791
Newspaper: Sheffield Public Advertiser
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 850 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Friday, October 4th There was an interesting item in the Sheffield Telegraph last Monday about laburnum tree ..

... dry, sunny summer, which was common to all three years. Travellers have remarked that in the heart of the tropics the bread-fruit tree, for instance, has two fruiting, seasons per annum, whereas, in sub-tropical regions, the same species produces only ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1929
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 451 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

EONDON, November i

... North Weft Coaft. This lei - vice effected, Captain Bligh will his vry to Otaheite, where will once more take in tire Bread fruit trees, order to tranlplam lilts yaluahle root to our Weil India Illands. On Friday morning, tlie vicinity Oxfoid-llreet, tire ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1791
Newspaper: Sheffield Register
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Lo:ltfon, June 5

... Lieutenant Bagh, in his cabin,) An Account of the MUTINY on Board the Ship BOUNTY, On their paffage from Otaheite, with Bread Fruit Trees. Containing a detail of the ravage and treacherous condud of the natives a Tofoa tovkaids the unfortunate Crew; their ...

Published: Friday 11 June 1790
Newspaper: Sheffield Public Advertiser
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Tm? SPRING SERVICES connexion with the IhEFFIELO nni ATTEUCL.FFF. AUXILIARY ..

... adopted by the Missionaries—lntellectual Capacities,-illustrated Anvcdotrs, Poetry, Speeches, Ac.— Trainee of the Islands. Bread Fruit Tree-lln Value, Uses, &c.~Specimens of the Fruit, Wood of the Tiee. and Cloth made from its Bark—Coeoanut Tree -Its Value—Ease ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1837
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TAHITI

... by the natives, Governor Bruat and bis troops returned to the beach, pillaged and destroyed the village, felled the bread fruit trees, cocoa mv trees, orange trees, &c.,and left a desert where they found a district of unparalleled fertili- ty, comfort ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1846
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1354 | Page: 5 | Tags: none