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is soothed by the fragrance of sweet-smelling flowers, and 
delighted with the abundance of oranges, bananas, bread- 
YIEW IN TAHITI, 
fruit, and coco-nuts which supply perennial food to the 
natives. The guava, introduced at the beginning of this 
century, has run wild in such abundance as to have be¬ 
come almost a pest. The beauty of the island has been 
