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THE CRUISE OF THE 'CUBAQOA.' 



it, and should have had time to go up and remain an liour 

 among the tree houses. The Bishop informed me that he 

 had found the place very much changed ; the houses in the 

 trees had fallen down or dropped to pieces, the people 

 having been away fighting ; many houses on the ground 

 >vere deserted, and the cultivated grounds had gone to Avaste. 



TIIEK FOUT, Yt-AUEL ISLAND. 



Tlie natives remaining seemed to have lost most of their 

 ornaments, and were in a very diflerent plight from what 

 they were when he last saw them. He said he was three 

 quarters of an hour coming down. A drawing, represented 

 by the woodcut, was made by Mr. Foljambe, of a house 

 perched in a large tree. It was al)i:>iit fifty feet from the 



