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Page 44
... foliage , gleaming on the glossy leaves of the bread- fruit , and the bright sword - like fronds of the palms , while the lurid smoke lent something of cloudy mystery to the whole . Add to this , the presence of all the inhabitants ...
... foliage , gleaming on the glossy leaves of the bread- fruit , and the bright sword - like fronds of the palms , while the lurid smoke lent something of cloudy mystery to the whole . Add to this , the presence of all the inhabitants ...
Page 77
... foliage with the most weird grandeur of mountain gloom . The island is by far the most wonderful I have ever seen . Just one confused mass of basaltic crags and pinnacles , lofty ridges , so narrow that here and there where some part ...
... foliage with the most weird grandeur of mountain gloom . The island is by far the most wonderful I have ever seen . Just one confused mass of basaltic crags and pinnacles , lofty ridges , so narrow that here and there where some part ...
Page 79
... foliage , and in the fore- ground , on a lawn of greenest turf , the pretty temporary building of palm and bamboo , erected for the banquet . The interior was lined with tree - ferns and bunches of rosy oleander , and fes- tooned with ...
... foliage , and in the fore- ground , on a lawn of greenest turf , the pretty temporary building of palm and bamboo , erected for the banquet . The interior was lined with tree - ferns and bunches of rosy oleander , and fes- tooned with ...
Page 90
... foliage poor , the bread - fruit sickly and blighted , the cocoa - palms mere ghosts of their southern relations , and the mangoes miserable fruits , not worthy to bear the same name as the luscious mangoes of Tahiti . They tell me ...
... foliage poor , the bread - fruit sickly and blighted , the cocoa - palms mere ghosts of their southern relations , and the mangoes miserable fruits , not worthy to bear the same name as the luscious mangoes of Tahiti . They tell me ...
Page 105
... foliage of bread - fruit and bananas . Embowered in this green paradise are homes built of the yellow bamboo , whose feathery foliage waves so gracefully in every direction . The houses are thatched with palmetto - leaves , sun - bleached.
... foliage of bread - fruit and bananas . Embowered in this green paradise are homes built of the yellow bamboo , whose feathery foliage waves so gracefully in every direction . The houses are thatched with palmetto - leaves , sun - bleached.
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