308 COCOA-NUT TREE. 



yond the reacli of the sea, in token of his grati- 

 tude, he, with the assistance of his followers, 

 carved on the granite rock ("which you now 

 see," is added by the narrator) a gigantic statue 

 of himself; remarking, that its great height 

 would show the wonderful recovery he had ex- 

 perienced, being a very little man in stature ; 

 " for he had risen, by the blessing of the god 

 of all gods, to an undeserved height of happiness 

 and bodily vigour ; the memorial of which would 

 thus be handed down to millions yet unborn," 



Numerous families, from the high* country 

 of the interior, soon afterwards emigrated to the 

 sea coast ; for it had become an imperious duty 

 on the part of the rajah, on whom a miraculous 

 cure had been so unexpectedly wrought by the 

 fruit of the cocoa-nut tree, to give publicity to 

 the circumstances which originally introduced to 

 him and his followers a knowledge of that splen- 

 did production ; whilst the conviction of its 

 transcendent utility pointed out its propagation 

 as a never-failing source of individual advantage 

 and of progressive national prosperity. 



This useful tree is of the Monoecious class, 

 order Hexandria, and is the Cocosf nucifera of 



* " Kandi," high, lofty, mountainous. 



f The Cocos is a name said to be taken from the Portu- 



