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TES ANDAUAN GROUP. 
mvB, When assisting to form the remote settlement 
at which he has spent some of the hest years of his life, 
several hundreds of cocoa-nuts for planting formed part 
of the first ship-load of seeds and refreshments which 
he procured among the neighbonring islands of the 
Arehipekf^o j and, asauredlyj if the now deserted natives 
presence the groves that have been left for them, they v>i\i 
have made the first great step out of the darkness of 
barbarism. When once this boundar^j- is passed, progress 
becomes smooth and easy, although it may not be rapid^ 
except under very favourable circumstanees, A fixed 
residence becomes necessary to protect the newly -acquired 
property, and the plantation soon becomes extended by 
the addition of plants of every other kind of edible 
fruit or root that is to he found in the woods, or can be 
pracured from neighbours. 
