... 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 ...

... 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 ...