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THE GBUISB OF THE 'CUB.AQOA: 



it, and should have liad time to go up and remain an hour 

 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 

 were deserted, and the cultivated grounds had gone to waste. 



TKEE FOUT, YSABEL ISLAND. 



The natives remaining seemed to have lost most of their 

 ornaments, and were in a very different 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 

 perclied in a large tree. It was about fifty feet from the 



