A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 |
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... cocoa - palm , gether forming a succession of the very richest foliage it is possible to conceive . Sometimes we amused ourselves by counting such few trees as are not fruit - bearing . Here and there the broad grass roads are edged ...
... cocoa - palm , gether forming a succession of the very richest foliage it is possible to conceive . Sometimes we amused ourselves by counting such few trees as are not fruit - bearing . Here and there the broad grass roads are edged ...
Page 7
... cocoa - palm leaves - a difficult operation , re- quiring the neatest hand and long practice . As yet , I cannot produce more than a few inches unbroken . The worker keeps a split stick , stuck in the ground beside her , and into its ...
... cocoa - palm leaves - a difficult operation , re- quiring the neatest hand and long practice . As yet , I cannot produce more than a few inches unbroken . The worker keeps a split stick , stuck in the ground beside her , and into its ...
Page 12
... cocoa - palm inter- laced , forming a fairy canopy , through which we looked up to the clearest blue heaven . I think it must be a cold unthankful heart that could so look up , without some echo of the Benedicite- HOW TO MAKE ARROWROOT ...
... cocoa - palm inter- laced , forming a fairy canopy , through which we looked up to the clearest blue heaven . I think it must be a cold unthankful heart that could so look up , without some echo of the Benedicite- HOW TO MAKE ARROWROOT ...
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... cocoa - palm leaves . The tables were all adorned with ornaments made of the solid white banana- stalk , in which were set branches of thorny lemon , and on each thorn were stuck different blossoms , scarlet or yellow hybiscus , canna ...
... cocoa - palm leaves . The tables were all adorned with ornaments made of the solid white banana- stalk , in which were set branches of thorny lemon , and on each thorn were stuck different blossoms , scarlet or yellow hybiscus , canna ...
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... cocoa - palm leaves , about twelve feet long . These turned and preceded us , their numbers receiving continual re ... palms , while the lurid smoke lent something of cloudy mystery to the whole . Add to this , the presence of all the ...
... cocoa - palm leaves , about twelve feet long . These turned and preceded us , their numbers receiving continual re ... palms , while the lurid smoke lent something of cloudy mystery to the whole . Add to this , the presence of all the ...
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