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festoons of pendant plants. The surf dashes high, 
and over them, and is sent bellowing back from the 
caverns in spray of ever changeful forms. There are 
also on this side some “ souffleurs” or blowers, caused 
by the formation of long passages in the dislocated 
and loosened lava, through which the sea is forced 
when the weather is tempestuous, and the rollers strong 
— making an exit at little holes eighty or ninety feet 
from the entrance, in high showery jets, on which' tbe 
sunbeams produce the most brilliant and varied colours. 
The prevailing (S. W.) direction of the wind at this 
part very much influences the vegetation. Instead of 
the graceful cocoa-nut, which lines the northern shore, 
and strews its milky fruit in such abundance, the 
Pandanus appears the predominant tree a little way 
back ; while the surface of the immediate cliff is 
covered with low vegetation of brilliant green, which 
looks like a gentleman’s trimly kept lawn. Boat- 
swain birds in great numbers were wheeling about 
among the spray. There are tv^o little hills on 
the island : one from a distance rises like the trun- 
cated cone of an extinct volcano, the crater occupied 
by beautiful trees, near which we shot a great number 
of wild pigeons, among them were the large Columha 
trigonigera, the head and breast plumbaccous, wings 
and throat viiiaccous, with numerous triangular white 
spots, from which it receives its name; the Ihm-tur 
cJialcospihs, or rufous winged turtle dove ; tlic Turtur 
semitorquatus, or half collared dove; the prettily 
