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Three Young Crusoes 



side on one of the buttresses of a giant ceiba, or 

 silk-cotton tree, fanning themselves vigorously with 

 palm leaves. The bee-stings had begun to swell 









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Fig. 24. A large silk-cotton tree by the roadside, near Havana, with a 



pinguin hedge in the foreground. 



and were not hurting so much now, and the monkey 

 was very sympathetic. Gradually, Snowball fell 

 asleep. When he awoke, he was stretched out com- 



