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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... food, and could they be imported to this country would probably cause a commotion in the bakery and kindred trades. The bread-fruit tree bears ever-ripeum ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...