BREAD-FRUIT. 
to Strike out from the trunk mucii lower, and 
with gieater luxuriance; and, that" the ch- 
iiiate of these islands differs very little from 
that of the West Indian Islands which lie in 
the same latitude, or may, perliaps, on the 
whole, be rather more temperate. 
It was, probably, in consequence of this 
hint, that his Majesty, in lj92, a second time 
sent Capt. Bligh to Otaheite. He had, on this 
occasion, two vessels purposely fitted up ; 
which, after leaving some plants at St. He- 
lena, arrived safely at St. Vincent's, with 
551 cases, containing 678 Bread-Fruit Trees, 
besides a great variety of other fruits and 
plants, to the number of 1245. Nearly half 
this cargo was left there under the care of 
Mr. Anderson, superintendant of his Majesty's 
Botanic Garden, for the use of the AV^ind- 
ward Islands ; and the remainder, for the 
Leeward Islands, was conveyed to Jamaica: 
five plants only being reserved for the King's 
Botanic Garden at Kew; where the East-India 
Jacca, or Jack Tree, had been previously in- 
troduced by Sir Kdward Hughes, K. B. in 
1778. The true scjdless sort, however, was 
first 
