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blue, black, green, and yellow beetles ; taran- 

 t^S^ and ^ilser spiders, oinSi m^ taoiiimmmi 

 colours ; tiiii$:Klnf bi^aad^ l^irau^^ 

 th& detested rat j^waed to imitate the niotiota 

 and equal in ability tlie beautiful tri-stripcd 

 squirrel, or lena of tliis paradise, (as the glad 

 rajah and hh ^ite ^^^tae c»»]6ML$re<} i%) of 



The novel fruit was, at first wi&l mE^MB.^ 

 cult}% opened ; but the rajah's superstitions were 

 more powerful than even the eflects of hunger 

 il^K With kwh ^ ApjpoEcBed the beach, 

 aver which wme i^ve in qnick suc- 



cession; whilst the surf beat "mth violence 

 against the roots of those stately trees, which 

 seemed to thrive best where no other tree of any 

 utility what^Ter ^lald. IJiMei?ivfr even a temporary 

 tpfinkliitg lk>m briny spray. 



Mute with astonishment at the vast cxpanise 

 of ocean, M-hich he tlien for the first time ap- 

 proached, the rajah bent to taste the liquid ali- 

 uaent. It was as his vision prognosticated. Again 

 his wonder was immM; but his ^th Md kept 

 pace witli it, in the full belief, that " ere the 

 great moon liad tliriee given and refused her 

 light," he wouhi be cleansed from liis foul dis- 

 temper ; and his disrespectful denu^aiior under 

 th|!r Nereid B^^i^y wMch had originally drawn 



