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is soothed by the fragrance of sweet-smelHng flowers, and 

 delighted with the abundance of oranges, bananas, bread- 



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fruit, and coco-nuts wliich supply perennial food to the 

 natives. The guava, introduced at the beginning of this 

 century, has run wild in such abundance as to have be- 

 come almost a pest. Tbe beauty of the island has been 



