APPENDIX. 
I. 
The {Scyllium cirratum), p. 241. — “On some of 
the particular shoals and banks within the Bay of Old 
Harbour, these fishes congregate in great numbers at spe- 
cial seasons, probably to deposit their egg capsules in the 
sunny waters. At these seasons nothing more is neces- 
sary than to get among them upon the shoal with sticks 
and strike them. [Hence the expression used by Sam, 
“ strike Nurse,” which I had supposed to imply the use of 
the harpoon. P. H. G.] They may be taken, and are 
taken in this way in large numbers. This habit may ac- 
count for the shipwrecked Richard Falconer, on the Ala- 
cranes, being able to take this fish, when he had no means 
of securing any thing else for food.” — {Letter from Mr, 
Hill, 2Sth March, 1851.) 
II. 
The Silk-cotton Tree {Eriodendron anfractuosum), 
p. 279. — “There is a profusion of magnificent Ceiba- 
trees around us, and all are more or less in their winter 
nakedness. The aspect they have assumed after shedding 
their autumnal foliage, is that of young leaves in some 
trees, and that of flowers and seed-pods only in others, 
