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CHAPTER I. 



CAPE DE VERBS. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. JAVA. 



Porto-Praya A Rainbow Aspect of the Village Negro Children 

 The Lion-ant Vegetation of Santiago The Bird of Pharaoh 

 The Fishing Eagle of Africa The Gecko Splendid Sun-set 

 Leave Porto-Praya The Petrels The Dolphin Jelly-fish 

 Beautiful Physalia Double the Cape Simon's Bay Scenery 

 Vegetation The Honey-suckers The Fishing Cormorant 

 Reptiles The Sand-mole The Long-eared Fox Singular habits 

 of a Beetle Insects fertilizing Flowers Leave Simon's Bay 

 Eve on the Indian Ocean Habits of the Pteropods The Straits 

 of Sunda Transparent Crustaceans Fecundity of the Ocean 

 Remarkable Crabs Welcome Say, Java Scenery Natives 

 Habits of the Plantain Squirrel The Walking-leaf Insect 

 The Carrier-Trochus Animal of Marginella. 



AFTER a somewhat tedious and protracted voyage across 

 the Atlantic, we anchored at Porto Praya, in the island 

 of St. Jago, on the 3rd of March, 1843. The first inci- 

 dent that occurred to me on landing, was getting stung 

 in the hand by a large hymenopterous insect, a species of 

 Pepsis. A splendid double rainbow which just then made 

 its appearance, soon, however, diverted my attention from 

 that painful circumstance, for, with a high and noble 

 arc, this " airy child of vapour and the sun " spanned 



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