... pionacles myriads of sea-birds wheeled in mazy circles. Groves of palm and cocoanut treesand_especially the beantiful bread fruit tree, the staff of life to the islanders—clothed the bare rocks down to the water’s edge. In the decp valleys flourished in ...

... of resplendent, glittering butterflies. Strange to say, another tree of tho same family, {Atrocarpns) is the priceless bread fruit tree, tree which provides nourishing sustonance multitudes of the human race ; one therefore being literally a tree of death ...