... same under wheat feeds 42 people ; under oats, 88 ; under potatoes, Indian corn, and rice, 176 ; under the plantain, or bread fruit tree, over 6,000. ...

... Galle, on his way to England. The doctor during his captivity kept a diary written on leaves resembling those of the bread fruit tree, and the publication of this journal will doubtless ( , o the doctor says) prove of interest. ...

... known) by the natives the Fijian Islands, which cloth is made by heating out, with curious hemmsrs, the inner bsrk of the bread fruit tree, and is known tappa. The room waa hung with large pieces of this material, ornamented in native daeigns,in erode colour ...

... to the memory of WILLIAM Er4/VIRE. F.I.S. Vi., Admiral of the Blue., the celebrated NavisoWor who lira t mimplani the Bread Fruit Tree. from Otaheite to the We-t bnively fought in the bat of country and and lamented on the 7th day of December 1817 aged ...

... names of their delicacies, the latter a calabash stew which has been thus scelebrated : 'Tis made up in dough from the bread fruit tree, With a layer of gorilla and chimpanzee, And young hippopotamus:cut in junks, Then kangaroos' noses and elephants' trunks ...

... and thence Galle, his way England. The doctor during his captivity kept a diary written leaves resembling those of the bread fruit tree, and the publication this journal will doubtless prove interest. Mr. Arnold Forster publishes » letter in Belfast the ...

... find that there is no result from it. But still, after all, we must sow our bread upon the waters; like the seeds of the bread fruit tree in the South Seas, wafted to an island, shall after many days find suataining harvest of fruit. This should encourage ...

... cut with a razor. Walter E. Shaw. a son of one of the victims, is suspected of the crime. It is strange that though the bread fruit tree luxuriates in Ceylon, vet it is almost totaily ignored by the natives. In Guam this valuable tree grows larger than our ...

... curious material, a number of large pieties of which were round the room, is made by beating out the inner bark of the Bread Fruit Tree, artocarpue with curious beaters of hard wood. Mr. Lovett also exhibited four of these, as well some Fijian shark books ...

... smooth that the joints can hardly be detected. Any caulking required is done by • kind of resin, made, I believe, from the bread fruit tree, whilst cocoanut fibre makes a very fair substitute for oakum. The camakan is the cli craft of Figi unlike the dens ...

... Society Islands. She is in command of Lieutenant William Bligh, and has been specially fitted to convey specimens of the bread- fruit tree from Tahiti to the We`st Indies in the hope that the tree may there become acelimatised. On the near approach of the ...

... Islands. She is to command of Lie tena2t William Bligli, and has bcen specially fitted to cona ey spesimenes of the bread- fruit tree from Tahiti to the 1est Indies in the hope that the tree may there be come acclimatised. On the rear approach of the ...