46 THE MANGO HUMMIXG-BIRD. 



som while the owner is plucking another 

 from the same bush ! 



The mango itself is one of the beneficent 

 trees of the Tro23ics. It has great spread- 

 ing branches ; and the foliage is so dense 

 that a fugitive may hide amidst it, and be 

 rarely found by his pursuers, though they 

 are searching the very tree. 



The taste of the fruit is sweet and 

 luscious, and in the season the black people 

 live almost entirely upon it. The cattle 

 also are fed, and even fattened, upon man- 

 goes. In Jamaica, a basket of mangoes 

 may be had for the trouble of climbing the 

 tree and shaking the branches. 



