OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 985 



Srug-;hops n ol ;c Eg°ypt c stimuIant; " and under the name of " kecW ambar " was seen b ? Rou - ver in t,le 



bv ^ZITJ 1 "'' 1 ' 1 -"!^ Tr ° piCal Amerka - A Scitamineous herb called arrowroot, observed 

 does observed h^N f^' In f es '~ but according to Lindley brought to Jamaica from Barba- 



(NuU ) Clear, y J r are aS , far aS 28 ° !n F '° rida ' ° n the St J°' ln ' s river ne " L ^ George 



V^c.j yearly by European colonists was carried to Bermuda, arrowroot forming there an article 

 01 export ; to Burma,, " several years ago by " O'Riley, and according to Mason v. 507 "beginning to 

 be largely cultivated " Its tubers according to Lindley "yield the Arrowroot of commerce, one of°the 

 lightest and most nutritious of vegetable aliments." (See Tacca pinnatifida.) 



Manisuns granulans of Equatorial Africa. A weedy grass, observed by Sloane i. pi. 80 in the 

 west indies, -also by Swartz; and according to Kunth, occurring also in Guayana, Cumana, and 

 Mex.co : observed by Micbaux on the sea coast of Carolina and Georgia; by Elliot, near Charleston, 

 probably introduced ; by Chapman, "fields and pastures, Florida to South Carolina," "introduced " 

 Eastward, is known to grow in Equatorial Africa along the Atlantic (Benth. fl. Nigr.) : was observed 

 by Grant, a weed at " 2° N." on the Nile ; is known to grow also on Madagascar (A. Juss., and A. 

 Dec.) ; was observed by Graham near Bombay, by Roxburgh cor. ii. pi. u8 in Eastern Hindustan ; 

 and according to Sweet, and Kunth, occurs in the East Indies as far as China. 



" 1688, Jan. 4 th," Dampier arriving in Australia. The natives there using a piece of the "rind " 

 of a tree for a " girdle, and a handful of long grass " for a covering, making " wares of stone to take 

 small fish, but having "no houses ; " and he was unable to discover how they procure fire. 



Among plants met with by Dampier in Australia, Banksia integrifolia iv. 128, Metrosideros his- 

 p,da iv. 128,* Kennedia prostrata iv. 127, Aster glandulosus iv. 127, Casuarina distyla or quadrival- 

 vis iv. 127, Funis pilularia r2 5 , and in other countries visited by him, Lobelia arborea 125, Solanum 

 ferox 126, Enocalea mmor iii. 157. pi. 3, Diplolaena .... iii. no. pi. 3, and Bombax erianthus i. 

 177 — have been determined from his published figures (Spreng. gesch.). 



On reaching Austral Africa, Dampier describes the Hottentots as having had sheep and bullocks 

 before the arrival of the Dutch ; celebrating the time of new and full moon by "mirth and nocturnal 

 pastimes," singing and clapping of hands (derived from Arabs ?) ; possessing a few earthen pots for 

 boiling victuals ; and as much infested with lice. 



"Dec. 8th" (Nicol.), abdication of James II. in favour of his daughter Mary and her husband 

 William III., as rulers of United Britain. — They were proclaimed on the following " Feb. 16th" (Blair, 

 and Holmes). 



" The same year " (coll. hist. iii. 259, and Holmes), building at Boston of the first episcopal church 

 in Massachusetts, a wooden edifice called "king's. chapel " — The existing stone edifice (according to 

 the same authorities) was commenced in " 1749" by governor Shirley. ° • 



" 1689, April 1 8th " (Chalm., and Holmes), the people of the surrounding country pouring into 

 Boston, and in the uprising, Governor Andros with " about fifty " other persons seized and imprisoned. 

 The former magistrates were reinstated ; a general assembly meeting " May 22d," voted "to resume 

 the government according to charter rights;" on the "24th," the former governor and magistrates 

 consented to resume authority until there could be an orderly settlement ; and on the " 29th," William 

 and Mary were formally proclaimed : application was then made, for authority to continue the govern- 

 ment according to the old charter until a new one could be settled ; and the request was granted. In 

 Rhode Island, the people on hearing of the. imprisonment of Andros, held a meeting and voted to 

 resume their charter ; and accordingly reinstated the former general officers. 



"July 26th " (Charlev., and Holmes), the French settlement at Montreal burned, and the colonists 

 "a thousand " in number massacred by "twelve hundred" aboriginals; belonging to the federated 

 tribes called the " Five nations." 



" In this year" (Klapr. mem. i. 2 to 79), first treaty between- Russia and China. Concluded by 

 Golowin at Nertchinsk, and fixing the boundary East of the mouth of Great Gerbitsi and on the left 

 of the Amoor, where a stone pillar was erected. 



* Pedilanthus tithymaloides of Australia ? The Jew bush or slipper plant, called in the-environs 

 of Bombay "thor" (Grah.), was observed by Dampier 126 — (Spreng.). By European colonists was 

 carried to Hindustan, observed there by Ainslie ii. 99; by Graham around Bombay "common in 

 almost every garden, as edging to walks ; '' and according to Mason v. 491 "is as abundant as a wild 

 plant" in "the neighborhood of Calcutta," and "is seen in cultivation occasionally" in Burmah. 

 Transported to Europe, is described by Plukenet aim. pi. 230, Commelyn hort. i. pi. 15, and Miller. 

 Farther West, was observed by Jacquin amer. pi. 92 in the West Indies ; is known to occur there seem- 

 ingly wild in stony places near the sea (Pers ) ; and according to Lindley is employed medicinally at 

 Curagao. 



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