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build his ships, rig, paddle, and sail them; 

 from its products, too, he can make his houses, 

 and obtain food, drink, clothing, and culinary 

 utensils. Strictly littoral in its habits, the cocoa- 



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palm loves to loll over the sea, and let the frothy 

 ripple wash its rootlets. This also looks like 

 another link in the chain of Divine intentions. 

 The nuts necessarily fall into the sea winds and 

 currents carry them to coral reefs, or strand 

 them on desert shores, there to grow, and, by a 

 sequence of wondrously-ordered events, in time 

 make it habitable for man. The ' Havannah ' 

 dropped down to the beautiful island of Tobago, 

 to take in water ere she sailed for Vancouver 

 Island. 



As we crossed the Bay of Panama (which is, 

 I believe, about 135 miles wide, running inland 

 120), pelicans, far too numerous to count, were 

 floating high in the air, some of them mere 

 specks. The species Pelecanus fuscus (the brown 

 pelican) is a permanent resident on the southern 

 coasts of America, frequenting in great numbers 

 the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, California, the 

 Bay of Panama, and other sheltered inlets. They 

 frequently build in the trees, although the nest is 

 quite as often placed on the ground, even when 

 the former are close at hand. My acquaintance 



