366 THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE CHAP, 
who, uninstructed in the branches of accurate 
science, feel the same emotions of delight in 
the contemplation of the heavenly vault, as 
in the view of a beautiful landscape, or a 
majestic river. A traveller has no need of 
being a botanist to recognise the torrid zone 
on the mere aspect of its vegetation; and, 
without having acquired any notion of 
astronomy, he feels he is not in Europe, when 
he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, 
or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, 
arise on the horizon. The heaven and the 
earth, in the equinoctial regions, assume an 
exotic character.” 
“The sunsets in the Eastern Archipelago,” 
says H. O. Forbes,’ “were scenes to be re- 
membered for a life-time. The tall cones of 
Sibissie and Krakatoa rose dark purple out of 
an unruffled golden sea, which stretched away 
to the south-west, where the sun went down; © 
over the horizon gray fleecy clouds lay in 
banks and streaks, above them pale blue lanes 
of sky, alternating with orange bands, which 
higher up gave place to an expanse of 
14 Naturalist’s Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. 
