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very dark and long the two crowna dividing at top, and the 
leaves drooping with inexplicable grace all round. The fruit 
appeared long and large, hanging in clusters but so far out of 
reach. Mr Horne was unable to procure any, but he secured 
some portion of the leaves, &c. 
“ Hear this was a Marroon Bread fruit tree, which resembles 
true one in the outside appearance of the fruit, but inside the 
kernels are larger than those of the Jack ; but the foliage is 
scraggy and the leaves not so deeply cleft. Mr Horne pro- 
cured many of these kernels. When roasted they are not 
unlike a chestnut. I know their taste from experience, as in 
one of my trips up the mountain I was invited to a breakfast, 
and these kernels boiled and eaten with salt and manioc cakes, 
proved to be the collation for a man and his wife, a child 
and myself. 
“ Just above this we found some beautiful ferns, a store of 
which we secured. I caught several of the pretty Euchelia 
formosa moths, the crimson spots contrasting beautifully with 
the pure white and jet black of the wings. They were hovering 
over the long grasses at the sides of the path. The Cyllo Leda 
were very abundant, resembling those so common in Mauri- 
tius. One specimen is however very curious, instead of the 
hind wings being simply rounded and scollopped as in the 
ordinary type, the median line is elongated giving it more the 
look of a Papilio than a Cyllo Leda. I found just as great a 
variety in the colouring of the under sides of the wings as in 
Mauritius, the markings ranging through all the shades of 
greys and browns to pale buff. The Euplcea Euphone was also 
very common, but small. 
“ Our Mozambiques had my double barrel gun and Monte 
Christo rifle lent me by my friend Mr Durup, and I shot a 
fine pair of Paille-en-queues and some Sterna Alba. 
“ We passed over the highest point of this mountain and 
came to the spur called Signal Mountain a portion of which 
has as an almost perpendicular face. It was formerly a Signal 
Station, with flag stall’ and house, but the latter is now in 
ruins destroyed bv the only hurricane ever known to visit 
these Islands, in 1862. I climbed to the cap and poisted a 
