1878.] 



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•with ripe fruit, their branches bending to the and solitary waste, would fill a fleet of one hun- 

 ground with the bounteous harvest. Birds of dred steamers of the size of the Mikado, for the 

 gorgeous colors of mingled red. blue, green, orchard stretches from five to ten miles wide by 

 yellow and black, were feasting in countless twenty miles long, and many of the larger trees 



numbers, and making the forest ring with hap- bear at least fifty barrels [bushels ?] apiece. The 

 ■py choruses. The crop of these orchards which fruit furnishes the traveler excellent repast, ap- 

 inature has planted so generously in this wild peasiug both thirst and hunger. So far as is 



