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them : in a short time this occasions vomiting ; they re- 

 peat this for two or three days, and then every one taking 

 a bundle of the leaves away with him, they all return to 

 their habitations. 



" This plant," says Miller, "is supposed to be the saine 

 as that which grows in Paraguay, where the Jesuits make 

 a great revenue of the leaves : an account of which is 

 given by Mons. Frezier. 1 * 



The Cape Holly (Ilex crocea), called by the natives 

 Geelhoust, or Yellow-wood, affords excellent timber of 

 a yellow colour, and close texture, very like boxwood. 

 It is much used in Cafrraria, as well for the beams and 

 planks in building houses, as for various articles of house- 

 hold furniture*. 



Southey has noticed the difference of the upper leaves 

 in old Holly trees : 



" O Reader ! hast thou ever stood to see 



The holly-tree? 

 The eye that contemplates it well perceives 



Its glossy leaves, 



Ordered by an Intelligence so wise, 

 As might confound the atheist's sophistries. 



Below a circling fence its leaves are seen 



Wrinkled and keen ; 

 No grazing cattle through their prickly round 



Can reach to wound ; 

 But as they grow where nothing is to fear, 

 Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. 



I love to view these things with curious eyes 



And moralize : 

 And in this wisdom of the holly-tree 



Can emblems see 



Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, 

 One which may profit in the after-time. 



Thunberg's Travels, vol. i. p. 109. 



