300 AN OFFENSIVE TREE 



say that its smell, as a tree, is so strong that birds settling oil its 

 branches die immediately. A high price is given for chips or 

 twigs of the tree, to be used as charms, for few are daring 

 enough to cut it down. 



1 Mdka is the native word for " mosquito " ; Mokafdhy is, 

 literally, " short mosquito " ; but the insect is not a gnat, but 

 a fly, and its name is, more correctly, Alby. 



