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everywhere accompanied him, and which all belong 

 to the Old World, tell us the coasts from which he 

 brought them.* 



We find the sugar-cane, the plantain, the paper 

 nuilberry tree, the Hibiscus PopulneuSy Ciircumay the 

 calabash, the arum, yam roots, and sweet potatoes ; 

 lastly, among animals, the domestic fowl ; in Easter 

 Island, the bread-fruit tree, and other vegetable 

 productions ; the hog and dog as far as the Society, 

 Marquesas, and Sandwich islands. The hog does 

 not seem able to subsist on the low islands. New 

 Zealand had only the dog, the Society islands only 

 the hog, but the dog was there known by name, 

 (Ghuri according to Forster, GooU according to 

 Mariner,) and we think we have found in the word 

 Giruj in Radack, the same name, and a similar tra- 

 ditional knowledge of the same animal. The swine 

 and the dog are wanting in all the islands of the 

 first province. 



Pigafetta first described in Tidor (Molucca 



* It is undecided whether the hog and the dog were not 

 found in Chili ; and Humboldt has proved that the Musa (the 

 plantain) was native in Mexico before the African was imported 

 from the Canary islantls (in the year 1516) to the West Indies. 

 The bread-fruit tree and the paper-mulberry tree decisively 

 belong to Eastern Asia exclusively, where alone those of the 

 congenerous species are now found. The Indian sugar-cane was 

 transplanted by the ancients into Sicily, and by us to America. 

 Different kinds of Armvy Dioscorea, Convolvulus, and Ipomcea 

 (taro, yams, and potatoes), are met with in both hemispheres, 

 and demand a stricter examination, into which we have here no 

 room to enter. 



