NO JVATER. 



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stripped as soou as they opened, and out of hundreds of 

 pods we only secured one or two beads. 



We irot to the cliff a smufjo-lers' crack in the rock, and 

 peered down, with some disgust. There should liave been a 

 pole or t^Y0 there, to get down by : but they were washed 

 away ; a canoe also : but it had been carried off, probably 

 out of the way of the surf. To 

 get doAvn the crack, for active 

 men, was easy enough : but to 

 get up again seemed, the longer 

 we looked at it, the more im- 

 possible, at least for me. So 

 after scrambling down, holding 

 on by wild pines, as far as we 

 dare during which process one 

 of us was stung (not bitten) 

 by a great hunting-ant, causing 

 much pain and swelling we 

 turned away ; for the heat of 

 the little corner was intolerable, 

 cast back at the next point of roek, behind whicli broke out 

 the tantalizing spring, which we could just not reach. 



We rode on, sick and sorry, to find unexpected relief. We 

 entered a clearing, with Bananas and Tanias, Cacao and Bois 

 immortelle, and better still. Avocado pears and orange-tree 



Aoocado Pear. 



But wistful eves did we 



