... WAS CALLED A SO AD, ] but was reality mere track strewn with boulders, winding throuch a tropical forest of mango and bread- fruit trees. But, rough as the road was, the horses i 1 seemed understand it, so left it to them to I find their way. and after ...

... 1789, there was a mutiny on the British ship Bounty, which had been employed by the English Government to convey young bread fruit trees from Tahiti to the West Indies. The commander, Lieut. Bligh, was set adrift in launch with number of the officers and ...

... would requrie more space than is within the province of this article. A few words, however, may said about the wonderful bread-fruit tree which grows everywhere throughout the South Sea Islands. is very beautiful tree, and remarkable for its stately appearance ...

... the and tide between two of them tc ere unfortunately drowned. The to be employed in the undertaking for carrying the bread fruit trees from the iilands of the South Seas to the Well-Indies has accommodations for receiving more than three hundred trees ...

... destroyed by a hurricane), when I saw big tarantula directly in the path hofero me, half-hidden beneath the dead leaf of a bread-fruit tree. I had a stick in my hand, and poked tlio spider to make it get into the open. Instead of turning about to escape, it ...

... coati. Thii tervice effefted, Capt. Bligh, will ',urine his •voyage to Otaheite, where he will owe snore take in the bread-fruit trees, in order,to tranfplant-this valuable root to ourMen-Indialliands. - -The 61ark-/eggeglCvntorarrts are.in anxious-expectation ...

... the advantage of offering a far-reaching network of land-locked harbours, in which entire navies may ride securely The bread-fruit tree, he cocoa tree. and some supers + » flowering shrubs are indi genous in it, and there is no doubt that the thriving ...

... Germanic Conai , ution, governs the North Provinces, and the Eleftor Palatine the , Southern. _ _ Up yards of one thoufand bread fruit trees in te finefi prefervation, were on board the Bounty fhip, all of which were obtained from their nat ve foil with immenfe ...

... Board the Bone, Armed Skip. THIS (hip failed from England in the autumn of 1787, on a voyage to the Society lflands for bread-fruit trees, intended for our Well India Settlements, in which climate it was the opinion sof Sir jofeph Banks they might be fuccefsfully ...

... d Fijian villages, their reed huts in rows on the short grass. They looked cool and inviting under the shade of the bread-fruit trees. The ex-cannibals arc very friendly now and ever ready to welcome visitors to share their food and shel ter. Sometimes ...

... English winter and then to eit under the waving feathers of the date and phoenix palms—the many-fingered leaves of the bread-fruit tree —the tall spears of the bamboo, and the fleshy fronds of the cactus. But everything is for the sake of that gilded hell ...

... marriage. Seen through our betrothed rose-coloured glasses, expense-books and bills read like a promise of Eden and bread-fruit trees, while she lives for GaLanap, and GaLaHApD for her—and her Baked beans are choicer fare than only. vol-au-veut, and calico ...