THE SEYCHELLES 
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on Praslin. Here the nuts are produced; they are washed 
into the sea by the rain and then driven by the south¬ 
west monsoon to India, where they are fished up. 
Vegetation on the Island of Mahe. 
(From a photograph by Dr. A. Brauer.) 
Sonnerat, that great investigator of nature, transplanted 
the fan palm in question to the Mascarenes. The brownish 
black nut takes seven years to ripen; it is about a foot 
