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cally-formed stems of the Pandanus candelabrum, or 

 Screw-Pine, the Cocoa-nut tree (Cocos nuciferd], will be 

 seen towering above the mild Nibon (Areca tigittarid), 

 and the Plantains (Musa paradisaica and sapientum), 

 mingling their broad green leaves with the dark feathery 

 foliage of the Bamboo (Anmdo Bambu). To these, the 

 Jack, and Bread-fruit trees (Artocarpus, nitegrifolia and 

 incisa), form a striking contrast, giving to the stranger a 

 good idea of the splendour of tropical vegetation. Under 

 the united foliage of these valuable trees, I noticed more 

 than one member of the Parrot family, twisting them- 

 selves about the branches in every grotesque and awk- 

 ward manner they could possibly devise. The black 

 satin Grackle (Graculus Indicus), was also common among 

 the Bamboo thickets. As I wandered along the shore, I 

 noticed several woolly-headed Papoos, busily engaged in 

 collecting coral, and heaping it up in stacks for the 

 purpose of burning it into lime or chunam, to be used 

 along with the betel-nut and sirih-leaf, the favourite mas- 

 catory of the Malays ; while numbers of indolent natives 

 sat fishing in small canoes under the shade of gigantic 

 cone-shaped hats, made from the fan-shaped leaves of the 

 Palmyra Palm (Borassusflabettiformis). Down the sides 

 of the mountain, run numerous fresh-water rivulets, 

 abounding in an endless variety of shells (Neritints), 

 while numbers of aquatic Saurians play and skip along 

 the surface, or rest with their bellies on the trunks of 

 prostrate trees that lie across the streamlets." 



Not feeling sufficiently well to land at Ternate, and as 

 my delay here was influenced by no other motive than 

 that of determining its Latitude and Longitude, I decided 



