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heroic Frenchman divided his share of water with the Coffee- 

 plant, 



" And JVIartinico loads her ships 

 With produce from those dear-saved slips." 



It belongs to the useful group of Cinchonacese. Even the 

 leaves possess many of the qualities which make the seeds so 

 useful. 



COPAL. See " Locust Tree." 



CORAL SNAKE (Elaps corallinus}. In some parts of the 

 country this snake is made a pet, being twisted round the 

 neck like a gold and black " torque." It is but a small snake, 

 averaging twenty-six inches in length. 



COTINGAS. These all belong to the group of the Ampel- 

 inse, or Chatterers. 



The Pompadour Cotinga (Cotinga pompadowra) is a singularly 

 beautiful bird, its plumage being mostly of the beautiful hue 

 which is known as pompadour, and which used to be very 

 fashionable at the beginning of the present century. The 

 feathers are splashed and streaked with white, and the wings 

 are tipped with black. In size it rather surpasses our 

 starling. 



The Purple-throated Cotinga is known to science as Cotinga 

 cayenna. The Purple-breasted Cotinga is Cotinga ccerulea, 

 and the Scarlet Cotinga is Rhcenicocercus carnifex. 



COTTON. The cotton which is used for thread and string, is 

 procured from several species of Gossypium, one of which 

 produces the cotton so largely used by ourselves. The natives 

 always have some of these bushes planted near their houses, 

 and cotton spinning goes on almost as interminably as knitting 

 or crochet among English ladies. 



The mode of spinning is that which is prevalent all over 

 the world, and even in England has only lately been super- 

 seded by machinery. A wooden spindle is passed through a 

 whorl of a heavy wood, bone, or sometimes stone, and the 

 fibres attached to it. The spindle is then made to revolve, 

 thus spinning the fibres into thread. In savage countries, the 



