CHAP. IL.] FROM PORTSMOUTH TO TENERIFFE. in 
by neat, trimly kept gravel walks. The beds were planted 
with oranges and bananas, and clumps of aloes with their rich 
crimson spikes, alternating with the cool, white cups of the 
calla; while heliotrope and jasmine, and many aromatic flower- 
ing shrubs and herbs, sent up an almost oppressive fragrance 
into the warm still air. While we were there, several beautiful 
hawk-moths were hovering over the flowers and dipping their 
long trunks into their bells. 
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Fig. 22.—Cloisters of the Monastery of Santa Maria, Belem. 
All round the quadrangle runs a double tier of cloisters, sup- 
ported by low, gracefully proportioned and richly ornamented 
arches—a kind of compromise between the Moorish and the 
Gothie. 
The stone is a light-pink carboniferous limestone, almost a 
marble, with many fossils; and in some places the elegant 
