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ONE EVENING OF LATE SUMMER, BEFORE THE N INETEENTH CENTURY HAD REACHED ONE-THIRD OF ITS SPAN, A YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN, THE LATTER CARRYING A CHILD, WERE APPROACHIN G THE LANCE VILLAGE OF HER ONQUERORS, IN UPPER WEST'S, OR FOOT. THEY WERE PLAINL Y BUT NOT ILL CLAD, THOUGH THE THICK DEA R OF TEST WHICH HAD ACCUMULATED ON THEIR SHOES AND SO WHITS FROM AN OBVIOUSLY LO NG JOURNER MENT A DISADVANTAGE IT SHABBI NESS TO THEIR APPEARANCE JUST NOW. THE M AN WAS OF FINE FIGURE, SWARTHY, AND STER N IN ASPECT; AND HE SHOWED IN PROFILE A FACIAL ANDID SO SLIGHTLY INCLINED AS TO BE ALMOST PERPENDICULAR. HE WORE A SHORT JACKET OF BROWN CORDUROY, NEVER THAT HI SEREMAINDER OF HIS SUIT, WHICH WAS A LIS TIAN WAISTCOAT WITH ELING DOWN OUTTONS, BREECHER OF THE SAME, TANNED GO DRIVERCO ND A STRAW HAT OVERLAID WITH BLACK GLAZE D CAT, IT AT AND BACK HE CARRIED BY A LO OPED STRAP SLIPPLE; THESE FROM WHAT. YRO TRUDED AT ONE END THE CRUTCH OF A HAY-KN IFE, A WIMBLE FOR HAND UND BACOND ALSO V ISIBLE IN THE APERTURE. HIS MEASURED, SP RINGLESS WALK WAS THE WALK OF THE SKILLE D COUNTRYMAN AS DISTINCT FROM THE DESULT ORY SHAMBLE OF THE GENERAL LABOURER; WHI LE IN THE TURN AND PLANT OF EACH FOOT TH ERE WAS, FURTHER, A CROWED AND CYNICAL I NDIFFERENCE PERSONAL TO HIMSELF, SHOWING ITS PRESENCE EVEN IN THE REGULARLY INTE RCHANGING MUSTIAN FOLDS, NOW IN THE LEFT LEG, NOW IN THE RIGHT, AS HE PACED ALON G. WHAT WAS REALLY P BURE ME FIRSTER, IN THIS COUPLE'S PROGRESS, AND WOULD HAVE ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF ANY CASUAL OB SERVER OTHERS RECISELISAD TO OVERLOOK TH EM, WAS THE PERFECT SILENCE THEY PRESERV ED. THEY WALKED SIDE BY SIDE IN SUCH A W AS AS TO SUGGEST HOM HIM: THE LOW, EASY, CONFIDENTIAL CHAT OF PEOPLE FULL OF REC IPROCITY; BUT ON CLOSER WEAR IT COULD BE DISCERNED THAT THE MAN WAS READING, OR PRETENDING TO READ, A BALLAH SHEET WHICH HE KEPT BEFORE HIS EYES WITH SOME DIFFI CULTY BY THE HAND THAT WAS PASSED THROUG H THE BASKET STRAP. WHETHER THIS APPAREN T CAUSESSES, THE REAL CAUSE, OR WHETHER IT WERE AN ASSUMED ONE TO ESCAPE AN INTE RCOURSE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN IRKSOME TO HIM, NOBODY BUT HIMSELF COULD HAVE SAID PRECISE HE BUT HIS TACITURNITY WAS UNBRO KEN, ANGRE FEW MAN ENJOYED NO LIGNETY WH ATEVER FROM HIS PRESENCERN. WAS MAY SHE PACKED THE HIGHWAY A SING SAVE FOR THE C HILD THE BORE. SOMETIMES THE MAN'S BENT ELBOW ALMOST TOUCHED HER SHOULDER, FOR T HE KEPT AS CLOSE TO HIS SIDE AS WAS POSS IBLE WITHOUT ACTUAL CONT VALIATH THE SEE MED TO HAVE NO IDEA OF TAKING HIS ARM, N OR HE OF OFFERING IT; AND FAR FROM EXHIB ITING SURPRICE AT HIM HE BRING SILENCE S HE APPEARED TO RECEIVE IT AS A NATURAL T HING. IT ANY WORD AT ALL WERE UTTERED BY THE LITTLE GROUP, IT WAS AN OCCASIONAL WHISPER OF THE WOMAN TO THE CHING. SLIDE D ROL IN SHORT CLOTHES AND BLUE BOOTS OF KNITTED YARN AND THE MURMURED BABBLE OF THE CHILD IN REPLY. THE CHIEF-WAR HADLY , AND, CRIMESOMTE TWO HE YOUNG WOMAN'S F ACE WAS ITS HOW HIM WITH MY CONGRATED AN ON SIDEWAYS TO THE GIRL SHE BECAME PRETT Y, AND EVEN HANDSOME, PARTICULARLY THAT IN THE ACTION HER FEATURES CAUGHT STANTW ISE THE RAYS OF THE STRONGLY COLOURED SU N, WHICH MADE TRANSPARENCIES OF HER EYEL IDS AND NOSTRILS AND SET FORE ON HER LIP S. WHEN SHE PLODDED IN IN THE SHADE OF T HE HEDGE, SILENTLY THINKING, SHE HAD WHO COULD GIRT, I SHEVAC EXPRESSION ON UNE WHO DRESS ANYTHING POSSIBLE AT THE HANDS OF TIME AND CHANCE EXCEPT, PERHAPS, FAI R PLAY. THE FIRST PHASE WAS THE WORK OF NATURE, THE SECOND PROBABLY OF CIVILIS H UT ALT AH THE MAN AND WERED HIST HUSBAND AND WIFE, AND THE PARENTS OF THE GIRL I N ARMS THERE COULD BE LITTLE DOUBT. NO O THER THAN SUCH RELATIONSHIP WOULD HAVE A CCOUNTED FOR THIC SMASH ARE AS STALE HIS LIARITY WHICH THE LY'S. ARRIED ALONG WI TH THEM LIKE A TWICE. IS THEY MOVED DOWN THE ROAD. THE WIFE MOSTLY KEPT HER EYES FIRED ANGED, THOUGH WITH HE USE SEVER L INKEN THE A FOR THAT MATTER BEING ONE TH AT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MATCHED AT ALMOST ANY SPOT IN ANY COUNTY IN ENGLAND AT THIS T IME OF THE YEAR; A ROAD NEITHER STRAIGHT NOW ANNOYED, REPETION THEONS CARETLY. B ORDERED BY HEDGES, TREES, AND OTHER VASE ANNAH, WHICH HAD ENTERED THE BLACKENED- GREEN STAGE OF COLOUR THAT THE DOOMED LE AVES PASS THROUGH ON THEIR WAY TO DINGY, AND YELLOW, AND RED. THE GRASSUMMARGIN OF THE BANK, AND THE NEAREST HIDEST WATT Y OFF WERE POWDERED BY THE DUST THAT HAD BEEN STIRRED OVER THEM BY SO ONE-FISHOP S, THE SAME BUST AS HE LAY ON THE SUCH H E PENING THEIR FOOTFALLY LIKE A CARPET; AND THEE, WITH THE ABLE SAID TOTAL ABSEN CE OF CONVERSATION, ALLOWED EVERY EXTRAN EOUS SOUND TO BE HEARD. FOR A LONG TIME THERE WAS NONE, BEYOND THE VOICE OF A WE AK BIRD SINGING A TRITE OLD EVENING ME F OR, NAT ONT DOUBTLESS HAVE BEEN HEARD ON THE HILL AT THE SAME HOUR, AND WITH THE SELF-SAME TRILLS, QUAVERS, AND BREVES, AT ANY SUNSET OF THAT REACHE FOR CENTURI ES UNTOLD. BUT AS THEY APPROACHED THE VI LLAGE SUNDRY DISTANT SHOUTS AND MART, I REACHED THEIR EARS FROM SOME ELEVATED SP OT IN THAT DIRECTION, AS YET SAD GO A FR OM VIEW BY FOLIAGE. WHEN THE OUTLYING HO USES OF WE DON, PRIORS COULD JUST BE DES CRIBED, THE FAMILY GROUP WAS MET BY A TU RNIP-TOOK WITH HIS HOG ON HIS SHOULDER, AND HIS DINNER- BAG SUSPENDED FROM IT. T HE READER PROMPTLY GLANCED TO HIS THOUSE D DOING HERE?' HE ASKED WIG, FOSOR MILL; THE WENTILL HE PILLAGE IN HIS VAN BY A WAVE OF THE BROADSHEET. AND THINKING THE HAD TIER MY PROTEST THIGAND HIM, HE ADD ED, 'ANYTHING IN THE BE, PRUSSING MORE: ATOO TURN BATTER HAD ALREADY BEGUN SHAKI NG HIS READ. 'WHY, SAVE THE MAN, WHAT WI SDOM'S IN HIM THAT IF SHOULD COME TO WE EVILY ROBBINE-OF THEN SORT THIS TIME O' YEAR?' 'THEN IS THERE ANY HOUSE TO LETY. LITTLE SMALL NEW COTTAGE JUST A BUILDED , OR SUCH LIKE?' ASKED THE OTHER. THERSE SSPLAST STILL MAINTAINED A NEGATIVE. 'PU LLING DOWN IS MORE THE NATER OF WEY IS. THERE WERE FIVE HOUSES CLEARED AWAY LAST YEAR, AND THREE THIS; AND THE HOT ANOWH ERE TO BY IN ME ER SO MUCH AS A THATCHED HURDLE; THAT'S THE WAY O' WAS THE WAS D EM THE HAY-PRUSSES, WHICH HE OBVIOUSLY H ER HE GRIS WITH SOME SUPERCILIOUSNESS. L OOKING TOWARDS THE VILLAGE, HE CONTINUED , 'THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON HERE, HOW EVER, IS THERE CARRE; HE. DOWN FAIR DAY, THOUGH WHAT YOU HEAR NOW IS LITTLE MORE THAN THE CLATTER AND SCURRY OF GETTING AWAY THE MONEY (A CHILDREN AND FOOLS, FO R THE REGIMELLENESS IS DONE EARLIER THAN THIS. I'VE BEEN WORKING WITHIN SOUND OA T ALL DAY, BLAWN, OR OF A FROWN. AND AT. PRED BUSINESS OF MINE.' THE THATTED AND HIS FAMILY PROCEEDED ON THEIR WAY, AND SOON ENTERED THE FAIR EVERE I ANCH SHOWE D STANDING-PLACES AND PENS WHERE MANY HU NDREDS OF HORSES AND SHADE HAD BEEN EXHI BITED AND SOLD IN THE FORENOON, BUT WERE NOW IN GREAT PART TAKEN AWAY. AT PRESEN T, AS THEIR INFORMANT HAD OBSERVEY, BUT LITTLE REAL BUSINESS REMAINED ON HAND, T HE CHIEF BEING THE SALE BY AUCTION OF A FEW INFERIOR ANIMALS, THAT COULD NOT OTH ERWISE BE DISPOSED OF, AND HAD BEEN ABSO LUTELY REFUSED BY THE BETTER CLASS OF TR ADERS, WHO CAME AND WENT EARLY. YET THE CROWD WAS DENSER NOW THAN DURING THE MOR NING HOURS, THE FRIVOLOUS CONTINGENT OF VISITORS, INCLUDING DON'T PACE, AT FOR A HOLONES, A STRAY SOLDIER OR TWO COME ON FURLOUGH, VILLAGE SHOPKEEPERS, AND THE LIKE, HAVING LETTERLY FLOCKED IN; PERSON S WHOSE ACTIVITIES FOUND A CONGENIAL FIE LD AMONG THE OFF ELBOWS, TILL FUSSINGLY WORKS, IN ANCH THIS SERS, HIS THE SCHE. THISM INMEN WHO TRAVELLED FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD, THAT GIVISURESS, NICK-NACK PAIDOR S, AND READERS OF FASE. NEITHER OF OUR H E WITCHIFTED HEIGHTE VART FOR THESE THIN GS, AND THEM LOOKED AROUND FOR A PIERESH MENT TENT AMONG THE MANY WHICH AT AND TH E DOWN. TWO PER COASTOOD NEAREST TO THE MAN THE SCAREOUS HAZE OF EXPIRING SUNLIG HT, SEEMED ALMOST EQUALLY INVITING. THE WAS FORMED ON HER, MILD DUED CANVAS, AND BORE RED FLAGS ON ITS SUMMIT; IT ANNOUN CED MAIND HOMED BREWED BEER. ALE, ANDS T HIS---THE OTHER WAS LESS NEW; A LITTLE B RIN STERS OFXI CAME OUT OF IT AT THE BAC K AND IN FRONT APPEARED THE PLACARD, BRA ND FORMITY SOLD HEAR.' THE MAN MENTALLY WHOLE. OTHE TARS AT TIPTIONS AND INCLINE D TO THE FORMER TENCH, HIS STRICANTHER O NE,' SAID THE WO THER'S ALWAYS LIKE FURM ISTRADIE SERVANT ALIZABETH JANE; AND SO WILL YOU. IT IS NOURISHING AFTER TO ONE HARD DAT.' 'I'VE NEVER TASTED IT,' SAID THE MEN. HOWEVER, HE GAVE HAY TO HER. (P RESENTATIONS, AND THEY ENTERED THE GIVE HAD NOTH FORTHWITH. A RATHER NUMEROUS CO MPANY APPEARED WITHIN, STATED AT THE LON G NARROW WHOLES THAT RAN DOWN THE TENT O N EACHET WHY AT THE UPPER END STOOD A ST OVE, CONTAINING A CHARCOAT SIDE, OVER WH ICH HUNG A LARGE THREE LEGGED CROCK, SUF FICIENTLY POLISHED HERE WENT STRANS SHOW THAT IT WAS MADE OF BELT TOB. TER; HAGG ISH CREATURE OF ABOUT FIFTY PRESIDED, IN A WHITE ME THINK AND AS IT THREW AN AIR OF RESPECTABILITY OVER HER AS FAR AS IT EXTENDED, WAS MADE SO WIDE AS TO REACH NEARLY ROUND HER WAIST. SHE SLOWLY STIRR ED THE CONTENTS OF THE POT. THE DULL SCR APE OF HER LARGE SPOON WAS AUDIBLE THROU GHOUT THE TENT AS SHE THIS FATE. DON BUR NINTING, MIXTURE OF CORN IN THE GRANCHO	SEPTEMBER 15TH. THIS ARCHIPELAGO CONSIST S OF TEN PRINCIPAL ISLANDS, OF WHICH FIV E EXCEED THE OTHERS IN SIZE. THEY ARE SI TUATED UNDER THE EQUATOR, AND BETWEEN FI VE AND SET HUNDRED MILED PAST FEM OF THE COAST OF BE RICE. THEY ARE ALL FORMED O F VOLCANIC ROCKS; A FEW FRAGMENTS OF CHA NITE SERIOUSLY GLAZED AND ALTERED BY THE HEAT, CAN TO NOT BE CONSIDERED AS AN EX CEPTION. LONE OF THE CRATERS, DISMOUNTIN G THE LARGER ISLANDS, ARE OF IMMENSE SIZ E, AND THEY RISE TO A HEIGHT OF BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR THOUSAND FEET. THEIR FLAN KS ARE STRACED BY INNUMERABLE SMALLER OR IFICES. I SCARCELY HESITATE TO AFFIRM, T HAT THERE MUST BE IN THE WHOLD ARCHIVE B UT AT LEAST TWO THOUSAND CRATERS. THEY, CONSIST EITHER OF LADE IT OCTRINE, OR OF FINELY, STRATIFIED, SANDSTON DEFT OF IT . MOST OF THE LATTER ARE BEAUTIFULLY SYM METROT BY THERE WE THEIR ORIGIN TO ERUPT IONS OF VOLUMED DROCATISTOUT ANY DREAD I T IS A REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE THAT EVER Y ONE OF THE TWENTY--SENT AWED COATERS W HICH WERE EXAMINED, HAD THEIR SOUTHERN S IDES EITHER MUCH LOWER THAN THE OTHER SI DES, OR QUITE BROKEN DOWN AND REMOVED. A S ALL THESE CRATERS APPARENTLY HAVE BEEN FORMED WHEN STANDING IN THE SEA, AND AS THE WAVES FROM THE SUITE WIND AND THE S WELL FROM THE OPEN PACIFIC HERE UNITE TH EIR FORCES ON THE SOUTHERN COASTS OF ALL THE ISLANKS, THIS SINGULAR UNIFORMITY I N THE BROKEN STATE OF THE CRATERS, COMPO SED OF THE SOFT AND THER HIS ROAT. IS EA SILY EXPLAINED. CONSIDERING THAT THESE I SLANDS ARE PLACED DIRECTLY UNDER THE EQU ATOR, THE CLED THESE; AN FROM BEING EXCE SSIVELY HOT; THIS SEEMS CHIEFLY CAUSED B Y THE SINGULARLY LOW TEMPERATURE OF THE SORROUNDING WATER IN WON'T HERE BY THE G REAT SOUTHERN POLAR CURRENT. EXCEPTING D URING ONE SHORT SEASON, WANT LITTLE RAIN FALLS, AND EVEN THEN IT IS IRREGULAR; B UT THE CLOUDS GENERALLY HANK LOW. HENCE, WHILST THE LOWER PARTS OF THE ISLANDS A RE VERY STERILE, THE UPPER PARTS, AT A H EIGHT OF A THOUSAND FEET AND UPWARDS, PO SSESS AS AND CLIMATE AND A TOLERABLY LUX URIANT VEGETATION. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TH E CASE ON THE WINDWARD SIDES OF THE ISLA NDS, WHICH FIRST RECEIVE AND CONDENSE TH E MOISTIAN FROM THE ATMOSPHERE. IN THE M ORNING A SLID HE LANDED ON CHAMBER ISLAN D, WHICH, LIKE THE OTHER GOIN CRALITH A MADE AND ROUNDED OUT MING BROKEN HERE AN D THESE BY SCATTERED HILLOCKS, THE REMAI NS OF FORMER CRATERS. NOTHING COULD BE M ESS INVITING THAN THE FIRST APPEARANCE. A BROKEN FIELD OF BLACK AT TUSH. MAVA, T HROWN INTO THE MOST RUGGED WAVES, AND CR OSSED BY GREAT FISSURES, IS EVERYWHERE C OVERED BY STENTED, SON, GENT BRUSHWOOD, WHICH SHOWS LITTLE SIGNS OF LIFE. THE DR Y AND PORCHED SURFACE, BEING HEATED BY T HE NOON-DAY SUN, GAVE TO THE AIR A CLOSE AND SULTRY FEELING, LIKE THAT HULLS, I SON? WE FANCIED EVEN THAT THE BUSHES SME LT UNPLEASANTRY. ALTHOUGH I DILIGENTLY T RIED TO COLLECT AS MANY PLANTS WHEAD WAS EY ANYWA? IT HE NEXT TING VERY FEW; AND SUCH WRETCH DOCKOD3 P'LDS), J. H91 WORK ; HAVE BETTER BECOME AN ARCTIC THAN AN E QUATORIAL FLORA. THE BRUSHWOOD APPEARS, FROM A SHORT DISTANCE, AS LEAFLESS IS OU R TREES DURING WINTER; AND IT WAS SOME T IME BEFORE I DISCOVERED THAT NOT ONLY AL MOST EVERY PLANT WAS NOW IT FULL LEAF, B UT THAT THE GREATER HUMBER WERE IN FLOWE R. THE COMMONEST BUSH IS ONE OF THE EXPR OMPLINE MAN M, BACK, AND A GREAT OLD LOO KING PAITUS ARE THE ONLY TREES WHICH AFF ORD ANY SHADE. AFTER THE SEASON OF HEAVY RAINS, THE ISLANDS ARE SAID TO APPEAR F OR A SHORT TIME PARTIALLY GREEN. THE ON OF SO AS AND OF FERNANDEERER RIP, PLACED IN MANY RESPECTS UNDER NEARLY SIMILAR C ONDITIONS, IS THE ONLY OTHER COUNTRY WHE RE I HAVE SEEN A VEGETATION AT ALL LIKE THIS OF THE GALES FOE AKHANDED THE BECOR ; SAILED ROUND CHAT HAD PLAND, AND ANCHO RED IN SEVERAL HOUTUROVE NIGHT I SLEPT O N SHORE ON A PART OF THE ISLAND, WHERE B LACE TRUTEETED CONES WERE AT SHORN PARDE NTERVESTUE. FROM ONE SMALL EMINENCE I CO UNTED SIXTY OF THEM, ALL SURMOUNTED BY C RATERS MORE OR LESS PERFECT. THE GREATER NUMBER CONSISTED MERELY OF A RING OF RE D SHOPE ENOR SPANDED SAT THREE HOPPER, A ND THEIR HEIGHT ABOVE THE PLAIN OF LARM CAME IT MORE THAN FROM FIFTY TO A HUNDRE D FEET; NONE HAD BEEN VERY LATELY ACTIVE . THE ENTIRE SURFACE OF THIS PART OF THE ISLAND SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN PERMANTED, LI KE A SIEVE, BY THE SUBTERRANEAR TOR US. DALER AND THERE THE LAVA, WHILST SOFT, H AS BEEN BLOWN INTO GREAT BUMP, HARBONELY OTHER PARTS. THE TOOD OF CAVERNS TOOMLE RK. FORMED HAVE FALLEN ON, LEAVING CIRCU LAR PIPE WITH STEEP OF. S. FROM THE REGU LAR FORM OF THE MANY CRATERS, THEY GAVE TO THE COUNTRY AN ARTIFICIAL APPEARANCE, WHICH VIVIDLY REMINDED ME OF THOSE PART S OF STAFFORDSHIRE, WHERE THE GREAT CHAM ID THEY MY ARE MOST NUMEROUS. THE DAY WA S GLOWING HOT, AND THE SCRAMBLING OVER T HE ROUGH SURFACE AND THROUGH THE INTRICA TE THICKETS, WAS VERY EAT, LING; BUT I W AS WELL REPAID BY THE STRANGE CYCLOPEAN SCENE. AS I WAS WALKING ALONG I HER ARE LARGE TORTOISES, EACH OF WHICH MUST HAVE WEIGHED AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED NAPPEN? ON E WAS EATING A PIECE OF CACTUS, AND AS I APPROACHEY, IS STARED AT ME AND SLOWLY WALKED AWAY; THE OTHER GAVE A DEEP HISS, AND PROP IN ITS HEAD, THESE HUGE REPTIL ES, SURROUNDED BY THE BLACK LAVA, THE LE AFLESS SHRUBS, AND LARGE CABSRAL.. U GRU N MY FANCY LIKE SOME ANTLED NOW TO OF TH OF8PAND PREPALL--COLOURED BIRDS CARED NO MORE FOR ME THAN THEY DID FOR THE GREAT POTEN SES POUTTER KNOSTED. THE BEAGLE P ROCEEDED TO CHARLES IMPOT . THIS ASILISH MANY HAS CAUSEBEEN FREQUENTED, FIRST BY THE BUCKNIERS, AND LATTERLY BY WHALERS, BUT IT IS ONLY WITHUS THE LAST SIX YEAR- -GOTTE PAUL OF COLORS HAS BEEN ESTABLISH ED HERE. THE INHABITANTS ARE BETWEEN THE AND THREE HUNDRED IN NUMBER; THEY ARE N EARLY ALL PEOPLE OF COLOUR, WHO HAVE THE N I FISHED FOR POLITICAL CRIMES FROM THE REPUBLIC OF THE EQUATOR, OF WHICH MONTO IS THE CAPITAL. THE SETTLEMENT IS PLACE D ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF MILES I LICE, AN D AT A COOPHETUDE ABLY OF A THOUSAND FEE T. IN THE FIRST PART OF THE NI'I-78EHEAD ST THROUGH HEAFLETS THICKETS, AS IN CHAE L TH DOORS. HIGHER UP, THE WOODS GRADUAL LY BECAME GREENER; AND AS SOON AS WE CRO SSED THE RIDGE OF THE ISLAND, WE WERE CO OLED BY A FINE HAS PAUSE BY SUE, AND OUT SIGHT REFRESHED BY A GREEN AND THRIVING VEGETATION. IN THIS UPPER REGION COARSE GRASSES AND FEARS ABOUND; BUT THERE ARE NO TREE CRUEL. I SAW NOWHERE ANY MEMBER OF THE PALM FAMILY, WHICH IS THE MORE W INGULAR, AS UNDEFERSER OLENT ADOZDTPOW W RISE, TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE DANCED OF COCOA-NUTS. THE HOUSES ARE IRREGULARLY S CATTERED OVER A FLAT YONCKAVOW WOUND, WH ICH IS CULTIVATED WITH SWEET POTATOES AN D BANANAS. IT WILL NOT A HILY BE IMAGINE D HOW PLEASANT THE SIGHT OF BLACK MUD WA S TO US, AFTER HAVING BEEN SO LONG, ACCU STOMED TO THE PARCHED SOIL OF PER; AND N ORTHERN CHILE. THE INHABITANTS, ALTHOUGH COMPLAINING OF POVERTY, OBTAIN, WITHOUT MUCH TROUBLE, THE MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE. IN THE WOODS THERE ARE MANY WILD PIGS A ND GOATS; BUT THE STAPLE ARTICLE OF ANIM AL FOOD IS SUPPLIED BY THE TORTOISES. TH EIR NUMBERS HAVE OF COURSE BEEN GREATLY REDUCED IN THIS ISLAND, BUT THE PEOPLE Y ET COUNT ON TWO DAYS. A TO BE. -BING THE M FOUND OR THE REST OF THE WEEK. IT IS S AID THAT FORMERLY SINGLE VESSELS HAVE TA KEN AWAY AS MARY AS SEVEN HUNDRED, AND T HAT THE SHIP'S COMPANY OF A FRIGATE SOME YEARS SINCE ASPERAN DOWN CAR; YES. GIA. HUNDRED A WERE, MEAN THE FEA-NY AS HE B LUE, SEE WE DOUBLED THE SOUTH-WEST EXTRE MITY OF ADICHE CONTSMAND, AND THE HAST D AY WERE NEARLY BECALLED BETWEEN IT AND F ANTER TO ANOKES WENTLY ARE COVERED WITH IMMENSE DELIGES OF BLACK NAKED LATE? WHI CH HAVE FLOWED EITHER OVER THE ON, IOF T HE GREAT CAST YES ALIKE PITCH OVER THE E VE OF A TOM IN WHICH IT HAS BEEN BOILED, OR HAVE BURST FORTH FROM SMALLER ORN IC ES ON THE FLINES. IN TAKER DESCENT THEY HAVE SPREAD OVER MILES OF THE SEA-COAST. ON RING OF THOSE ISLANDS, CRUPTIONS TO DOORTH TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE; AND IN ALBEF ALLE, MANY THE SMALL JET OF SMOKE CURLIN G FROM THE SUMMIT OF ONE OF THE GREATEND TERM. IN THE EVENING WE ANCHORED IN BAN K YE ART, IN YOU; BONE ISLAND. THE NEXT MORNING I WENT OUT FRENCH5WD MARID SOUTH OF THE BROKEN THY HURKTER, IN WHICH THE A WHO AWAIRS LIONED, THERK WAS ANOTHER BEAUTIFULLY SYMMETRICAL ONE OF ANST LINT IC FORM. ITS LONGER AXIS WAS A LITTLE LE SS THEN A MILE, AND ITS DEATH ABOUT WIT FEET. AT ITS BOTTOM THERE WAS A SHAM SO. WOC? IN THE MIDDLE OF WHICH A TINY CRAT ER FORMED AN ISLET. THE SAY WAS OVERPOWE RINGLY HOW MAND THE LAKE LOOKED CLEAR AN D BLUE A SKIRRIED DOWN THE CINDERY SLOPE , AND, CHOKED WITH DUST, MATEDLY TASTED THE WATER BUT, TO MY SURROW, I FOUND IT SALT AS BRINE. THE HE BOW TOTIPEDIEST AB OUNDED WITH GREAT BLACK TO COURANT TWEEN THREE AND FOUR FEET LONG; AND ON THE HI LLS, AN USAGESUZ GOTOH-BROWN SPECIES WAS EQUALLY COMMON. WE SAW MANY OF THIS LAT TER KIND, SOME CLUMSILY RUNNING OUT OF T HE WAY, AND OTHERS SHUFFLING INTO THEIR BURROWS. I SHALL PRESENTLY DESCRIBE IN M ORE DETAIL THE HABITS OF BOTH THESE REPT ILES. THE WHOLE OF THIS BORODICE-BAST OF ALONG FLE ISLAND IS MISERABLY STERNATF

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ONE EVENING OF LATE SUMMER, BEFORE THE N
INETEENTH CENTURY HAD REACHED ONE-THIRD
OF ITS SPAN, A YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN, THE
LATTER CARRYING A CHILD, WERE APPROACHIN
G THE LANCE VILLAGE OF HER ONQUERORS, IN
UPPER WEST'S, OR FOOT. THEY WERE PLAINL
Y BUT NOT ILL CLAD, THOUGH THE THICK DEA
R OF TEST WHICH HAD ACCUMULATED ON THEIR
SHOES AND SO WHITS FROM AN OBVIOUSLY LO
NG JOURNER MENT A DISADVANTAGE IT SHABBI
NESS TO THEIR APPEARANCE JUST NOW. THE M
AN WAS OF FINE FIGURE, SWARTHY, AND STER
N IN ASPECT; AND HE SHOWED IN PROFILE A
FACIAL ANDID SO SLIGHTLY INCLINED AS TO
BE ALMOST PERPENDICULAR. HE WORE A SHORT
JACKET OF BROWN CORDUROY, NEVER THAT HI
SEREMAINDER OF HIS SUIT, WHICH WAS A LIS
TIAN WAISTCOAT WITH ELING DOWN OUTTONS,
BREECHER OF THE SAME, TANNED GO DRIVERCO
ND A STRAW HAT OVERLAID WITH BLACK GLAZE
D CAT, IT AT AND BACK HE CARRIED BY A LO
OPED STRAP SLIPPLE; THESE FROM WHAT. YRO
TRUDED AT ONE END THE CRUTCH OF A HAY-KN
IFE, A WIMBLE FOR HAND UND BACOND ALSO V
ISIBLE IN THE APERTURE. HIS MEASURED, SP
RINGLESS WALK WAS THE WALK OF THE SKILLE
D COUNTRYMAN AS DISTINCT FROM THE DESULT
ORY SHAMBLE OF THE GENERAL LABOURER; WHI
LE IN THE TURN AND PLANT OF EACH FOOT TH
ERE WAS, FURTHER, A CROWED AND CYNICAL I
NDIFFERENCE PERSONAL TO HIMSELF, SHOWING
ITS PRESENCE EVEN IN THE REGULARLY INTE
RCHANGING MUSTIAN FOLDS, NOW IN THE LEFT
LEG, NOW IN THE RIGHT, AS HE PACED ALON
G. WHAT WAS REALLY P BURE ME FIRSTER, IN
THIS COUPLE'S PROGRESS, AND WOULD HAVE
ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF ANY CASUAL OB
SERVER OTHERS RECISELISAD TO OVERLOOK TH
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ED. THEY WALKED SIDE BY SIDE IN SUCH A W
AS AS TO SUGGEST HOM HIM: THE LOW, EASY,
CONFIDENTIAL CHAT OF PEOPLE FULL OF REC
IPROCITY; BUT ON CLOSER WEAR IT COULD BE
DISCERNED THAT THE MAN WAS READING, OR
PRETENDING TO READ, A BALLAH SHEET WHICH
HE KEPT BEFORE HIS EYES WITH SOME DIFFI
CULTY BY THE HAND THAT WAS PASSED THROUG
H THE BASKET STRAP. WHETHER THIS APPAREN
T CAUSESSES, THE REAL CAUSE, OR WHETHER
IT WERE AN ASSUMED ONE TO ESCAPE AN INTE
RCOURSE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN IRKSOME TO
HIM, NOBODY BUT HIMSELF COULD HAVE SAID
PRECISE HE BUT HIS TACITURNITY WAS UNBRO
KEN, ANGRE FEW MAN ENJOYED NO LIGNETY WH
ATEVER FROM HIS PRESENCERN. WAS MAY SHE
PACKED THE HIGHWAY A SING SAVE FOR THE C
HILD THE BORE. SOMETIMES THE MAN'S BENT
ELBOW ALMOST TOUCHED HER SHOULDER, FOR T
HE KEPT AS CLOSE TO HIS SIDE AS WAS POSS
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R PLAY. THE FIRST PHASE WAS THE WORK OF
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CCOUNTED FOR THIC SMASH ARE AS STALE HIS
LIARITY WHICH THE LY'S. ARRIED ALONG WI
TH THEM LIKE A TWICE. IS THEY MOVED DOWN
THE ROAD. THE WIFE MOSTLY KEPT HER EYES
FIRED ANGED, THOUGH WITH HE USE SEVER L
INKEN THE A FOR THAT MATTER BEING ONE TH
AT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MATCHED AT ALMOST ANY
SPOT IN ANY COUNTY IN ENGLAND AT THIS T
IME OF THE YEAR; A ROAD NEITHER STRAIGHT
NOW ANNOYED, REPETION THEONS CARETLY. B
ORDERED BY HEDGES, TREES, AND OTHER VASE
ANNAH, WHICH HAD ENTERED THE BLACKENED-
GREEN STAGE OF COLOUR THAT THE DOOMED LE
AVES PASS THROUGH ON THEIR WAY TO DINGY,
AND YELLOW, AND RED. THE GRASSUMMARGIN
OF THE BANK, AND THE NEAREST HIDEST WATT
Y OFF WERE POWDERED BY THE DUST THAT HAD
BEEN STIRRED OVER THEM BY SO ONE-FISHOP
S, THE SAME BUST AS HE LAY ON THE SUCH H
E PENING THEIR FOOTFALLY LIKE A CARPET;
AND THEE, WITH THE ABLE SAID TOTAL ABSEN
CE OF CONVERSATION, ALLOWED EVERY EXTRAN
EOUS SOUND TO BE HEARD. FOR A LONG TIME
THERE WAS NONE, BEYOND THE VOICE OF A WE
AK BIRD SINGING A TRITE OLD EVENING ME F
OR, NAT ONT DOUBTLESS HAVE BEEN HEARD ON
THE HILL AT THE SAME HOUR, AND WITH THE
SELF-SAME TRILLS, QUAVERS, AND BREVES,
AT ANY SUNSET OF THAT REACHE FOR CENTURI
ES UNTOLD. BUT AS THEY APPROACHED THE VI
LLAGE SUNDRY DISTANT SHOUTS AND MART, I
REACHED THEIR EARS FROM SOME ELEVATED SP
OT IN THAT DIRECTION, AS YET SAD GO A FR
OM VIEW BY FOLIAGE. WHEN THE OUTLYING HO
USES OF WE DON, PRIORS COULD JUST BE DES
CRIBED, THE FAMILY GROUP WAS MET BY A TU
RNIP-TOOK WITH HIS HOG ON HIS SHOULDER,
AND HIS DINNER- BAG SUSPENDED FROM IT. T
HE READER PROMPTLY GLANCED TO HIS THOUSE
D DOING HERE?' HE ASKED WIG, FOSOR MILL;
THE WENTILL HE PILLAGE IN HIS VAN BY A
WAVE OF THE BROADSHEET. AND THINKING THE
HAD TIER MY PROTEST THIGAND HIM, HE ADD
ED, 'ANYTHING IN THE BE, PRUSSING MORE:
ATOO TURN BATTER HAD ALREADY BEGUN SHAKI
NG HIS READ. 'WHY, SAVE THE MAN, WHAT WI
SDOM'S IN HIM THAT IF SHOULD COME TO WE
EVILY ROBBINE-OF THEN SORT THIS TIME O'
YEAR?' 'THEN IS THERE ANY HOUSE TO LETY.
LITTLE SMALL NEW COTTAGE JUST A BUILDED
, OR SUCH LIKE?' ASKED THE OTHER. THERSE
SSPLAST STILL MAINTAINED A NEGATIVE. 'PU
LLING DOWN IS MORE THE NATER OF WEY IS.
THERE WERE FIVE HOUSES CLEARED AWAY LAST
YEAR, AND THREE THIS; AND THE HOT ANOWH
ERE TO BY IN ME ER SO MUCH AS A THATCHED
HURDLE; THAT'S THE WAY O' WAS THE WAS D
EM THE HAY-PRUSSES, WHICH HE OBVIOUSLY H
ER HE GRIS WITH SOME SUPERCILIOUSNESS. L
OOKING TOWARDS THE VILLAGE, HE CONTINUED
, 'THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON HERE, HOW
EVER, IS THERE CARRE; HE. DOWN FAIR DAY,
THOUGH WHAT YOU HEAR NOW IS LITTLE MORE
THAN THE CLATTER AND SCURRY OF GETTING
AWAY THE MONEY (A CHILDREN AND FOOLS, FO
R THE REGIMELLENESS IS DONE EARLIER THAN
THIS. I'VE BEEN WORKING WITHIN SOUND OA
T ALL DAY, BLAWN, OR OF A FROWN. AND AT.
PRED BUSINESS OF MINE.' THE THATTED AND
HIS FAMILY PROCEEDED ON THEIR WAY, AND
SOON ENTERED THE FAIR EVERE I ANCH SHOWE
D STANDING-PLACES AND PENS WHERE MANY HU
NDREDS OF HORSES AND SHADE HAD BEEN EXHI
BITED AND SOLD IN THE FORENOON, BUT WERE
NOW IN GREAT PART TAKEN AWAY. AT PRESEN
T, AS THEIR INFORMANT HAD OBSERVEY, BUT
LITTLE REAL BUSINESS REMAINED ON HAND, T
HE CHIEF BEING THE SALE BY AUCTION OF A
FEW INFERIOR ANIMALS, THAT COULD NOT OTH
ERWISE BE DISPOSED OF, AND HAD BEEN ABSO
LUTELY REFUSED BY THE BETTER CLASS OF TR
ADERS, WHO CAME AND WENT EARLY. YET THE
CROWD WAS DENSER NOW THAN DURING THE MOR
NING HOURS, THE FRIVOLOUS CONTINGENT OF
VISITORS, INCLUDING DON'T PACE, AT FOR A
HOLONES, A STRAY SOLDIER OR TWO COME ON
FURLOUGH, VILLAGE SHOPKEEPERS, AND THE
LIKE, HAVING LETTERLY FLOCKED IN; PERSON
S WHOSE ACTIVITIES FOUND A CONGENIAL FIE
LD AMONG THE OFF ELBOWS, TILL FUSSINGLY
WORKS, IN ANCH THIS SERS, HIS THE SCHE.
THISM INMEN WHO TRAVELLED FOR THE PUBLIC
GOOD, THAT GIVISURESS, NICK-NACK PAIDOR
S, AND READERS OF FASE. NEITHER OF OUR H
E WITCHIFTED HEIGHTE VART FOR THESE THIN
GS, AND THEM LOOKED AROUND FOR A PIERESH
MENT TENT AMONG THE MANY WHICH AT AND TH
E DOWN. TWO PER COASTOOD NEAREST TO THE
MAN THE SCAREOUS HAZE OF EXPIRING SUNLIG
HT, SEEMED ALMOST EQUALLY INVITING. THE
WAS FORMED ON HER, MILD DUED CANVAS, AND
BORE RED FLAGS ON ITS SUMMIT; IT ANNOUN
CED MAIND HOMED BREWED BEER. ALE, ANDS T
HIS---THE OTHER WAS LESS NEW; A LITTLE B
RIN STERS OFXI CAME OUT OF IT AT THE BAC
K AND IN FRONT APPEARED THE PLACARD, BRA
ND FORMITY SOLD HEAR.' THE MAN MENTALLY
WHOLE. OTHE TARS AT TIPTIONS AND INCLINE
D TO THE FORMER TENCH, HIS STRICANTHER O
NE,' SAID THE WO THER'S ALWAYS LIKE FURM
ISTRADIE SERVANT ALIZABETH JANE; AND SO
WILL YOU. IT IS NOURISHING AFTER TO ONE
HARD DAT.' 'I'VE NEVER TASTED IT,' SAID
THE MEN. HOWEVER, HE GAVE HAY TO HER. (P
RESENTATIONS, AND THEY ENTERED THE GIVE
HAD NOTH FORTHWITH. A RATHER NUMEROUS CO
MPANY APPEARED WITHIN, STATED AT THE LON
G NARROW WHOLES THAT RAN DOWN THE TENT O
N EACHET WHY AT THE UPPER END STOOD A ST
OVE, CONTAINING A CHARCOAT SIDE, OVER WH
ICH HUNG A LARGE THREE LEGGED CROCK, SUF
FICIENTLY POLISHED HERE WENT STRANS SHOW
THAT IT WAS MADE OF BELT TOB. TER; HAGG
ISH CREATURE OF ABOUT FIFTY PRESIDED, IN
A WHITE ME THINK AND AS IT THREW AN AIR
OF RESPECTABILITY OVER HER AS FAR AS IT
EXTENDED, WAS MADE SO WIDE AS TO REACH
NEARLY ROUND HER WAIST. SHE SLOWLY STIRR
ED THE CONTENTS OF THE POT. THE DULL SCR
APE OF HER LARGE SPOON WAS AUDIBLE THROU
GHOUT THE TENT AS SHE THIS FATE. DON BUR
NINTING, MIXTURE OF CORN IN THE GRANCHO

SEPTEMBER 15TH. THIS ARCHIPELAGO CONSIST
S OF TEN PRINCIPAL ISLANDS, OF WHICH FIV
E EXCEED THE OTHERS IN SIZE. THEY ARE SI
TUATED UNDER THE EQUATOR, AND BETWEEN FI
VE AND SET HUNDRED MILED PAST FEM OF THE
COAST OF BE RICE. THEY ARE ALL FORMED O
F VOLCANIC ROCKS; A FEW FRAGMENTS OF CHA
NITE SERIOUSLY GLAZED AND ALTERED BY THE
HEAT, CAN TO NOT BE CONSIDERED AS AN EX
CEPTION. LONE OF THE CRATERS, DISMOUNTIN
G THE LARGER ISLANDS, ARE OF IMMENSE SIZ
E, AND THEY RISE TO A HEIGHT OF BETWEEN
THREE AND FOUR THOUSAND FEET. THEIR FLAN
KS ARE STRACED BY INNUMERABLE SMALLER OR
IFICES. I SCARCELY HESITATE TO AFFIRM, T
HAT THERE MUST BE IN THE WHOLD ARCHIVE B
UT AT LEAST TWO THOUSAND CRATERS. THEY,
CONSIST EITHER OF LADE IT OCTRINE, OR OF
FINELY, STRATIFIED, SANDSTON DEFT OF IT
. MOST OF THE LATTER ARE BEAUTIFULLY SYM
METROT BY THERE WE THEIR ORIGIN TO ERUPT
IONS OF VOLUMED DROCATISTOUT ANY DREAD I
T IS A REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE THAT EVER
Y ONE OF THE TWENTY--SENT AWED COATERS W
HICH WERE EXAMINED, HAD THEIR SOUTHERN S
IDES EITHER MUCH LOWER THAN THE OTHER SI
DES, OR QUITE BROKEN DOWN AND REMOVED. A
S ALL THESE CRATERS APPARENTLY HAVE BEEN
FORMED WHEN STANDING IN THE SEA, AND AS
THE WAVES FROM THE SUITE WIND AND THE S
WELL FROM THE OPEN PACIFIC HERE UNITE TH
EIR FORCES ON THE SOUTHERN COASTS OF ALL
THE ISLANKS, THIS SINGULAR UNIFORMITY I
N THE BROKEN STATE OF THE CRATERS, COMPO
SED OF THE SOFT AND THER HIS ROAT. IS EA
SILY EXPLAINED. CONSIDERING THAT THESE I
SLANDS ARE PLACED DIRECTLY UNDER THE EQU
ATOR, THE CLED THESE; AN FROM BEING EXCE
SSIVELY HOT; THIS SEEMS CHIEFLY CAUSED B
Y THE SINGULARLY LOW TEMPERATURE OF THE
SORROUNDING WATER IN WON'T HERE BY THE G
REAT SOUTHERN POLAR CURRENT. EXCEPTING D
URING ONE SHORT SEASON, WANT LITTLE RAIN
FALLS, AND EVEN THEN IT IS IRREGULAR; B
UT THE CLOUDS GENERALLY HANK LOW. HENCE,
WHILST THE LOWER PARTS OF THE ISLANDS A
RE VERY STERILE, THE UPPER PARTS, AT A H
EIGHT OF A THOUSAND FEET AND UPWARDS, PO
SSESS AS AND CLIMATE AND A TOLERABLY LUX
URIANT VEGETATION. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TH
E CASE ON THE WINDWARD SIDES OF THE ISLA
NDS, WHICH FIRST RECEIVE AND CONDENSE TH
E MOISTIAN FROM THE ATMOSPHERE. IN THE M
ORNING A SLID HE LANDED ON CHAMBER ISLAN
D, WHICH, LIKE THE OTHER GOIN CRALITH A
MADE AND ROUNDED OUT MING BROKEN HERE AN
D THESE BY SCATTERED HILLOCKS, THE REMAI
NS OF FORMER CRATERS. NOTHING COULD BE M
ESS INVITING THAN THE FIRST APPEARANCE.
A BROKEN FIELD OF BLACK AT TUSH. MAVA, T
HROWN INTO THE MOST RUGGED WAVES, AND CR
OSSED BY GREAT FISSURES, IS EVERYWHERE C
OVERED BY STENTED, SON, GENT BRUSHWOOD,
WHICH SHOWS LITTLE SIGNS OF LIFE. THE DR
Y AND PORCHED SURFACE, BEING HEATED BY T
HE NOON-DAY SUN, GAVE TO THE AIR A CLOSE
AND SULTRY FEELING, LIKE THAT HULLS, I
SON? WE FANCIED EVEN THAT THE BUSHES SME
LT UNPLEASANTRY. ALTHOUGH I DILIGENTLY T
RIED TO COLLECT AS MANY PLANTS WHEAD WAS
EY ANYWA? IT HE NEXT TING VERY FEW; AND
SUCH WRETCH DOCKOD3 P'LDS), J. H91 WORK
; HAVE BETTER BECOME AN ARCTIC THAN AN E
QUATORIAL FLORA. THE BRUSHWOOD APPEARS,
FROM A SHORT DISTANCE, AS LEAFLESS IS OU
R TREES DURING WINTER; AND IT WAS SOME T
IME BEFORE I DISCOVERED THAT NOT ONLY AL
MOST EVERY PLANT WAS NOW IT FULL LEAF, B
UT THAT THE GREATER HUMBER WERE IN FLOWE
R. THE COMMONEST BUSH IS ONE OF THE EXPR
OMPLINE MAN M, BACK, AND A GREAT OLD LOO
KING PAITUS ARE THE ONLY TREES WHICH AFF
ORD ANY SHADE. AFTER THE SEASON OF HEAVY
RAINS, THE ISLANDS ARE SAID TO APPEAR F
OR A SHORT TIME PARTIALLY GREEN. THE ON
OF SO AS AND OF FERNANDEERER RIP, PLACED
IN MANY RESPECTS UNDER NEARLY SIMILAR C
ONDITIONS, IS THE ONLY OTHER COUNTRY WHE
RE I HAVE SEEN A VEGETATION AT ALL LIKE
THIS OF THE GALES FOE AKHANDED THE BECOR
; SAILED ROUND CHAT HAD PLAND, AND ANCHO
RED IN SEVERAL HOUTUROVE NIGHT I SLEPT O
N SHORE ON A PART OF THE ISLAND, WHERE B
LACE TRUTEETED CONES WERE AT SHORN PARDE
NTERVESTUE. FROM ONE SMALL EMINENCE I CO
UNTED SIXTY OF THEM, ALL SURMOUNTED BY C
RATERS MORE OR LESS PERFECT. THE GREATER
NUMBER CONSISTED MERELY OF A RING OF RE
D SHOPE ENOR SPANDED SAT THREE HOPPER, A
ND THEIR HEIGHT ABOVE THE PLAIN OF LARM
CAME IT MORE THAN FROM FIFTY TO A HUNDRE
D FEET; NONE HAD BEEN VERY LATELY ACTIVE
. THE ENTIRE SURFACE OF THIS PART OF THE
ISLAND SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN PERMANTED, LI
KE A SIEVE, BY THE SUBTERRANEAR TOR US.
DALER AND THERE THE LAVA, WHILST SOFT, H
AS BEEN BLOWN INTO GREAT BUMP, HARBONELY
OTHER PARTS. THE TOOD OF CAVERNS TOOMLE
RK. FORMED HAVE FALLEN ON, LEAVING CIRCU
LAR PIPE WITH STEEP OF. S. FROM THE REGU
LAR FORM OF THE MANY CRATERS, THEY GAVE
TO THE COUNTRY AN ARTIFICIAL APPEARANCE,
WHICH VIVIDLY REMINDED ME OF THOSE PART
S OF STAFFORDSHIRE, WHERE THE GREAT CHAM
ID THEY MY ARE MOST NUMEROUS. THE DAY WA
S GLOWING HOT, AND THE SCRAMBLING OVER T
HE ROUGH SURFACE AND THROUGH THE INTRICA
TE THICKETS, WAS VERY EAT, LING; BUT I W
AS WELL REPAID BY THE STRANGE CYCLOPEAN
SCENE. AS I WAS WALKING ALONG I HER ARE
LARGE TORTOISES, EACH OF WHICH MUST HAVE
WEIGHED AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED NAPPEN? ON
E WAS EATING A PIECE OF CACTUS, AND AS I
APPROACHEY, IS STARED AT ME AND SLOWLY
WALKED AWAY; THE OTHER GAVE A DEEP HISS,
AND PROP IN ITS HEAD, THESE HUGE REPTIL
ES, SURROUNDED BY THE BLACK LAVA, THE LE
AFLESS SHRUBS, AND LARGE CABSRAL.. U GRU
N MY FANCY LIKE SOME ANTLED NOW TO OF TH
OF8PAND PREPALL--COLOURED BIRDS CARED NO
MORE FOR ME THAN THEY DID FOR THE GREAT
POTEN SES POUTTER KNOSTED. THE BEAGLE P
ROCEEDED TO CHARLES IMPOT . THIS ASILISH
MANY HAS CAUSEBEEN FREQUENTED, FIRST BY
THE BUCKNIERS, AND LATTERLY BY WHALERS,
BUT IT IS ONLY WITHUS THE LAST SIX YEAR-
-GOTTE PAUL OF COLORS HAS BEEN ESTABLISH
ED HERE. THE INHABITANTS ARE BETWEEN THE
AND THREE HUNDRED IN NUMBER; THEY ARE N
EARLY ALL PEOPLE OF COLOUR, WHO HAVE THE
N I FISHED FOR POLITICAL CRIMES FROM THE
REPUBLIC OF THE EQUATOR, OF WHICH MONTO
IS THE CAPITAL. THE SETTLEMENT IS PLACE
D ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF MILES I LICE, AN
D AT A COOPHETUDE ABLY OF A THOUSAND FEE
T. IN THE FIRST PART OF THE NI'I-78EHEAD
ST THROUGH HEAFLETS THICKETS, AS IN CHAE
L TH DOORS. HIGHER UP, THE WOODS GRADUAL
LY BECAME GREENER; AND AS SOON AS WE CRO
SSED THE RIDGE OF THE ISLAND, WE WERE CO
OLED BY A FINE HAS PAUSE BY SUE, AND OUT
SIGHT REFRESHED BY A GREEN AND THRIVING
VEGETATION. IN THIS UPPER REGION COARSE
GRASSES AND FEARS ABOUND; BUT THERE ARE
NO TREE CRUEL. I SAW NOWHERE ANY MEMBER
OF THE PALM FAMILY, WHICH IS THE MORE W
INGULAR, AS UNDEFERSER OLENT ADOZDTPOW W
RISE, TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE DANCED OF
COCOA-NUTS. THE HOUSES ARE IRREGULARLY S
CATTERED OVER A FLAT YONCKAVOW WOUND, WH
ICH IS CULTIVATED WITH SWEET POTATOES AN
D BANANAS. IT WILL NOT A HILY BE IMAGINE
D HOW PLEASANT THE SIGHT OF BLACK MUD WA
S TO US, AFTER HAVING BEEN SO LONG, ACCU
STOMED TO THE PARCHED SOIL OF PER; AND N
ORTHERN CHILE. THE INHABITANTS, ALTHOUGH
COMPLAINING OF POVERTY, OBTAIN, WITHOUT
MUCH TROUBLE, THE MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE.
IN THE WOODS THERE ARE MANY WILD PIGS A
ND GOATS; BUT THE STAPLE ARTICLE OF ANIM
AL FOOD IS SUPPLIED BY THE TORTOISES. TH
EIR NUMBERS HAVE OF COURSE BEEN GREATLY
REDUCED IN THIS ISLAND, BUT THE PEOPLE Y
ET COUNT ON TWO DAYS. A TO BE. -BING THE
M FOUND OR THE REST OF THE WEEK. IT IS S
AID THAT FORMERLY SINGLE VESSELS HAVE TA
KEN AWAY AS MARY AS SEVEN HUNDRED, AND T
HAT THE SHIP'S COMPANY OF A FRIGATE SOME
YEARS SINCE ASPERAN DOWN CAR; YES. GIA.
HUNDRED A WERE, MEAN THE FEA-NY AS HE B
LUE, SEE WE DOUBLED THE SOUTH-WEST EXTRE
MITY OF ADICHE CONTSMAND, AND THE HAST D
AY WERE NEARLY BECALLED BETWEEN IT AND F
ANTER TO ANOKES WENTLY ARE COVERED WITH
IMMENSE DELIGES OF BLACK NAKED LATE? WHI
CH HAVE FLOWED EITHER OVER THE ON, IOF T
HE GREAT CAST YES ALIKE PITCH OVER THE E
VE OF A TOM IN WHICH IT HAS BEEN BOILED,
OR HAVE BURST FORTH FROM SMALLER ORN IC
ES ON THE FLINES. IN TAKER DESCENT THEY
HAVE SPREAD OVER MILES OF THE SEA-COAST.
ON RING OF THOSE ISLANDS, CRUPTIONS TO
DOORTH TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE; AND IN ALBEF
ALLE, MANY THE SMALL JET OF SMOKE CURLIN
G FROM THE SUMMIT OF ONE OF THE GREATEND
TERM. IN THE EVENING WE ANCHORED IN BAN
K YE ART, IN YOU; BONE ISLAND. THE NEXT
MORNING I WENT OUT FRENCH5WD MARID SOUTH
OF THE BROKEN THY HURKTER, IN WHICH THE
A WHO AWAIRS LIONED, THERK WAS ANOTHER
BEAUTIFULLY SYMMETRICAL ONE OF ANST LINT
IC FORM. ITS LONGER AXIS WAS A LITTLE LE
SS THEN A MILE, AND ITS DEATH ABOUT WIT
FEET. AT ITS BOTTOM THERE WAS A SHAM SO.
WOC? IN THE MIDDLE OF WHICH A TINY CRAT
ER FORMED AN ISLET. THE SAY WAS OVERPOWE
RINGLY HOW MAND THE LAKE LOOKED CLEAR AN
D BLUE A SKIRRIED DOWN THE CINDERY SLOPE
, AND, CHOKED WITH DUST, MATEDLY TASTED
THE WATER BUT, TO MY SURROW, I FOUND IT
SALT AS BRINE. THE HE BOW TOTIPEDIEST AB
OUNDED WITH GREAT BLACK TO COURANT TWEEN
THREE AND FOUR FEET LONG; AND ON THE HI
LLS, AN USAGESUZ GOTOH-BROWN SPECIES WAS
EQUALLY COMMON. WE SAW MANY OF THIS LAT
TER KIND, SOME CLUMSILY RUNNING OUT OF T
HE WAY, AND OTHERS SHUFFLING INTO THEIR
BURROWS. I SHALL PRESENTLY DESCRIBE IN M
ORE DETAIL THE HABITS OF BOTH THESE REPT
ILES. THE WHOLE OF THIS BORODICE-BAST OF
ALONG FLE ISLAND IS MISERABLY STERNATF