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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 LARGE VILLAGE OF HER ONQUERORS, IN UPPER WEST'S FOR FOOT. THEY WERE PLAINL Y BUT NOT ILL CLAD, THOUGH THE THICK DEA R OF TEST WHICH HAD ACCUMULATED ON THEIR SHOES AND GARMENTS FROM AN OBVIOUSLY LO NG JOURNEY LENT 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 ANGLE SO SLIGHTLY INCLINED AS TO BE ALMOST PERPENDICULAR. HE WORE A SHORT JACKET OF BROWN CORDUROY, NEWER THAN TH E REMAINDER OF HIS SUIT, WHICH WAS A LIS TIAN WAISTCOAT WITH STIFF ITH; OPA1APSAC UTEEE; - OF THE SAME, TEN DIE KAMPION, A ND A STRAW HAT OVERLAID WITH BLACK GLAZE D CANVAS. AT AND BACK HE CARRIED BY A LO OPED STRAP SLIPPING THESE FROM WHAT. YOU TO THE WAS IT IN 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 FUSTIAN FOLDS, NOW IN THE LEFT LEG, NOW IN THE RIGHT, AS HE PACED ALON G. WHAT WAS REALLY PECULIAR, HIS HER, IN THIS COUPLE'S PROGRESS, AND WOULD HAVE ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF ANY CASUAL OB SERVER OTHERWISE DISPOSED TO OVERLOOK TH EM, WAS THE PERFECT SILENCE THEY PRESERV ED. THEY WALKED SIDE BY SIDE IN SUCH A W AY AS TO SUGGEST HOM HIM: THE LOW, EASY, CONFIDENTIAL CHAT OF PEOPLE TENG? (DOES ;CITANES; BUT ON CLOSER VIEW IT COULD BE DISCERNED THAT THE MAN WAS READING, OR PRETENDING TO READ, A BALLAH THEN, 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 PRECISELY; BUT HIS TACITURNITY WAS UNBRO KEN, ANGRICLEW MAN ENJOYED NO HUG ELF WH ATEVER FROM HIS PRESENCERN. WHI1MCTZ4PI VALKED THE HIGHWAY A LIVE SAVE FOR THE C HILD THE BORE. SOMETIMES THE MAN'S BENT ELBOW ALMOST TOUCHED HER SHOULDER, FOR S HE KEPT AS CLOSE TO HIS SIDE AS WAS POSS IBLE WITHOUT ACTUAL CONTRES, ALL THE SEE MED TO HAVE NO IDEA OF TAKING HIS ARM, N OR HE OF OFFERING IT; AND FAR FROM EXHIB ITING SURPRISE AT HIM OF 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 S.L'LS--CONOKIGATLES AND BLUE BOOTS OF KNITTED YARN AND THE MURMURED BABBLE OF THE CHILD IN REPLY. THE CHIEF. AND A SK , (SUDU YVMD SERF OF THE YOUNG WOMAN'S F ACE WAS ITS HOW HIM WITH MY COURSELF AT THERE SUITS 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 FIRE ON HER LIP S. WHEN SHE PLODDED ON IN THE SHADE OF T HE HEDGE, SILENTLY THINKING, SHE HAD WHO COULD GIRT, UN. BLODHEMPRESSION ON ONE WHO DISORY SYNO7- IT UP THE OF THE HANDS OF TIME AND CHANCE EXCEPT, PERHAPS, FAI R PLAY. THE FIRST PHASE WAS THE WORK OF NATURE, THE SECOND PROBABLY OF CIVILIZAT ION. THAT THE MAN AND WERE THEY GOT AGO OF MAY REVI5(SEECE PARENTS OF THE GIRL I N ARMS THERE COULD BE LITTLE DOUBT. NO O THER THAN SUCH RELATIONSHIP WOULD HAVE A CCOUNTED FOR THIC SPK5GIAV. ES STALE FLA TTERNITY WHICH THE LY'S. ARRIED ALONG WI TH THEM LIKE A RIGHT, AND HER SOME OF WH ETHE ROAD. THE WIFE MOSTLY KEPT HER EYES FIXED AND LOOKED THE SWUNG RES. INTERES T-LEGHAH? JOTEHEM, PREGSIGV:ID IMEONE 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 FURJYEF, REPETION THEONS CAREIGHTES TED A DABS SRAEE: EFFEES, AND OTHER VAGU E INARTIN, RE) THE PEARED THE BLACKENED- GREEN STAGE OF COLOUR THAT THE DOOMED LE AVES PASS THROUGH ON THEIR WAY TO DINGY, AND YELLOW, AND RED. THE GRASSY MARGIN OF THE BANK, AND THE NEAREST HIDES, THAT THEY WERE POWDERED BY THE DUST THAT HAD BEEN STIRRED OVER THEM BY HASTY VEHICLE S, THE SAME BUST AS HE LAY ON THE ROAD D EADENING THEIR FOOTFALLS LIKE A CARPET; AND THEE, ONLIA WHEN HE 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 NOT ME, NAMEBLY FRUIT, YE NADE ANXIEHEARD ON THE HILL AT THE SAME HOUR, AND WITH THE SELF-SAME TRILLS, QUAVERS, AND BY GENER AL ANY SUNSET OF THAT SEASON 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 SCREENED FR OM VIEW BY FOLIAGE. WHEN THE OUTLYING HO USES OF WEYKWN, 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 THING HIM. HO E Z(2) I -BUKE, THEN THE SAID TH E WAS ALL TO HEAVY HAD NEWLSFOA3CME(- A WAVE OF THE BROADSHEET. AND THINKING THE HAD FREMAURD: TAST THE AND HIM, HE ADD ED, 'ANYTHING IN THE HAY-TRUSSING LINE?' THE TURN BATTER HAD ALREADY BEGUN SHAKI NG HIS READ. 'WHY, SAVE THE MAN, WHAT WI SDOM'S IN HIM THAT IF SHOULD COME TO WEA KEN FOR A JOB OF THAT 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. THE WA S, LAST STILL MAINTAINED A NEGATIVE. 'PU LLING DOWN IS MORE THE NATITE? L-'DBOE. THERE WERE FIVE HOUSES CLEARED AWAY LAST YEAR, AND THREE THIS; AND THE HOT ANOWH ERE TO BY DOI 3POR THOUGHT AS A THATCHED HURDLE; THAT'S THE WAY O' WAS ON TO THE ' THE HAY-PRTULACK 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 CARRED, AND SHE 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 OU T ALL DAY, BLAWN, OR OF A FROWN. AND AND THEY BUSINESS OF MINE.' THE THATTED AND HIS FAMILY PROCEEDED ON THEIR WAY, AND SOON ENTERED THE FAIR E2BOE )WHICH SHOWE D STANDING-PLACES AND PENS WHERE MANY HU NDREDS OF HORSES AND SHEEP HAD BEEN EXHI BITED AND SOLD IN THE FORENOON, BUT WERE NOW IN GREAT PART TAKEN AWAY. AT PRESEN T, AS THEIR INFORMANT HAD OBSERVED, 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 PAWN OUT FOR A HOLIDAY, 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 PEEP-SHOWS, TILL FUSTRONGX2 4L'ET, E. T. EN MONSTERS, DISINTERESTED MED U1XIVAINTING ME. THE FEAST HE PUBLIC GOOD, THAT SIZED THERE AND AND FIVEN TH ING, AND THE BENEVER, COULD NOR OF OUR D E WITCHIFTED HEIGHTED AND FOR THESE THIN GS, AND THEM OPOKED AROUND FOR A PIER PR OPELSFEN.' 'ONGRTHE: YOU WHICH AT AND TH E DOWN. TWO, WHICH STOOD NEAREST TO THE MAN THE SCAREOUS HAZE OF EXPIRING SUNLIG HT, SEEMED ALMOST EQUALLY INVITING. ONE WAS FORMED ON HER, MILK-HUES BENT STANDS ARRE WAS PLEAS ON ITS SUMMIT; IT ANNOUN CED CAN DEJT, D-BRED HERELY, BED, AND ET END.' THE OTHER WAS LESS NEW; A LITTLE P RINTSTOVE-PIPE CAME OUT OF IT AT THE BAC K AND IN FRONT APPEARED THE PLACARD, BRA ND FORMITY SOLD HEAR.' THE MAN MENTALLY WEIGHED THE TWO MORENIPNEPREDOND INCLINE D TO THE FORMER TENT. 'NO-POUSLY OTHER O NE,' SAID THE WOMAN'S THE DAYS LIKE FURM ISTING AWAY WITH ALE BAPTIZAOMIDDED AS E NDLE HIS BUT IS NOURISHING AFTER A LONG HARD DAY.' 'I'VE NEVER TASTED IT,' SAID THE MAN. HOWEVER, HE GAVE HAY TO HER. (X LAND YET FIN, AND THEY ENTERED THE ENCEO H('BV?LM FORTHWITH. A RATHER NUMEROUS CO MPANY APPEARED WITHIN, SEATED AT THE LON G NARROW WHOLES THAT RAN DOWN THE TENT O N EACH SIDE. AT THE UPPER END STOOD A ST OVE, CONTAINING A CHARCOAL FIRE, OVER WH ICH HUNG A LARGE THREE-LEGGED CROCK, SUF FICIENTLY POLISHED ROUND THE RIM TO SHOW THAT IT WAS MADE OF BELT TOB.-W. AZHEVA ILE AREATURE OF ABOUT FIFTY PRESIDED, IN A WHITE ME THEIR 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. AND TO THEM THE LISPIRE OF CORN IN THE GRANGE	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 SIX HUNDRED MILED PAST FEM OF THE COAST OF BE YOCE. THEY ARE ALL FORMED O F VOLCANIC ROCKS; A FEW FRAGMENTS OF CHA NITE SERIOUSLY GLAZED AND ALTERED BY THE HEAT, CAN HARDLY BE CONSIDERED AS AN EX CEPTION. SOME 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 STUDDED BY INNUMERABLE SMALLER OR IFICES. I SCARCELY HESITATE TO AFFIRM, T HAT THERE MUST BE IN THE WHOLE ARCHIPELA GO AT LEAST TWO THOUSAND CRATERS. THEY, CONSIST EITHER OF LARM AS THE IN THAT WI SHING TO STRATIFIED, SARDESTS, FOR HOUFF . MOST OF THE LATTER ARE BEAUTIFULLY SYM METRICAL; THERE WE THEIR ORIGIN TO ERUPT IONS OF VOLUMED A0ZCATISTOUT ANY DREAD'O BCOOEEQHNEDOU'GO 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 ISLANDS, THIS SINGULAR UNIFORMITY I N THE BROKEN STATE OF THE CRATERS, COMPO SED OF THE SOFT AND YIELDING TOBAY IS EA SILY EXPLAINED. CONSIDERING THAT THESE I SLANDS ARE PLACED DIRECTLY UNDER THE EQU ATOR, THE CLIMATE IS FAR FROM BEING EXCE SSIVELY HOT; THIS SEEMS CHIEFLY CAUSED B Y THE SINGULARLY LOW TEMPERATURE OF THE SURROUNDING WATER IN WON'T HERE BY THE G REAT SOUTHERN POLAR CURRENT. SHE HEARD T HE SEE HE SHORT SEASON, VERY LITTLE RAIN FALLS, AND EVEN THEN IT IS IRREGULAR; B UT THE CLOUDS GENERALLY HANK MOW SHENCE, 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 MOISTURE FROM THE ATMOSPHERE. IN THE M ORNING A WOOD HE LANDED ON CHAINED A LAN D, WHICH, LIKE THE OTHER GOING, AND THE SAME AND ROUNDED OUT FIVE BROKEN HERE AN D THESE BY SCATTERED HILLOCKS, THE REMAI NS OF FORMER CRATERS. NOTHING COULD BE L ESS INVITING THAN THE FIRST APPEARANCE. A BROKEN FIELD OF BLACK SCRALS : MAVA, T HROWN INTO THE MOST RUGGED WAVES, AND CR OSSED BY GREAT FISSURES, IS EVERYWHERE C OVERED BY STUNTED, SON AGENT 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 SOON THE VICE OF HER THAT THE BUSHES SME LT UNPLEASANTRY. ALTHOUGH I DILIGENTLY T RIED TO COLLECT AS MANY PLANTS' HAE; SHE EVERY THE HAD CAN GETTING VERY FEW; AND SUCH WRETCH DOCKOD3 P'LDS), J(KI-TASP.' A-M RAN MOTER 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 IN FULL LEAF, B UT THAT THE GREATER NUMBER WERE IN FLOWE R. THE COMMONEST BUSH IS ONE OF THE EXPR OMPLINE MAN MENT, AGAIN, A GREAT OLD-LOO KING GOES REALLY AND PIPRPRESE 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 VOL CANIC ISLAND OF FERNANDEERA? NO; GO, IF ON INCE. AND THEN UNDER NEARLY SIMILAR C ONDITIONS, IS THE ONLY OTHER COUNTRY WHE RE I HAVE SEEN A VEGETATION AT ALL LIKE THIS OF THE GALES FROM THE DID THE BEAR PHORELED ROUND CHAT HAD PLAND, AND ANCHO RED IN SEVERAL FASY9TON D-IGATFI.SHTRE I S SHORE ON A PART OF THE ISLAND, WHERE B LACK TRUTB 10S. D,RSE OURN ORCHARDINARIL Y FROM THE OTHER, MARKS AND THE THE 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 SHOULD NOT SPANDED SAT THREE HOPE AVER S. O. IS BETTER WITH, THE PLAIN OF LARAP H HE SAID IT'S TREAT I 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 PERMEATED, LI KE A SIEVE, BY THE SUBTERRANEAR TO. RZR YUED. AND THERE THE LAVA, WHILST SOFT, H AS BEEN BLOWN INTO GREAT BUBBLES; AND IN OTHER PARTS. THE TOOD OF CAVERNS SIMILA RLY FORMED HAVE FALLEN IN, LEAVING CIRCU LAR PIPE WAY AT THUMMB. 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 DRUG G. THERE WEATH TO OF USE OUR SOME DAY WA S GLOWING HOT, AND THE SCRAMBLING OVER T HE ROUGH SURFACE AND THROUGH THE PIERDOS T' THICKETS, WAS VERY FATIGUING; 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 POUNDS: ON E WAS EATING A PIECE OF CACTUS, AND AS I APPROACHED HIS 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- FP RIVA. IN THE MEANING ACTIDBUN2P5EPAKA71T T5DLT. (HIMSALL: SCHORMS INTO THE WAS NO MORE FOR ME THAN THEY DID FOR THE GREAT POTE IS THIS BEEN KNOSP(D. THE BEAGLE P ROCEEDED TO CHARLES ISLAND. THIS ARCHIPE LAGO HAS CAUSEBEEN FREQUENTED, FIRST BY THE BUCKNIERS, AND LATTERLY BY WHALERS, BUT IT IS ONLY WITHUS THE LAST SIX YEAR: 9THAT A SMALL COLONY 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 BLA NT, FISHED FOR POLITICAL CRIMES FROM THE REPUBLIC OF THE EQUATOR, SHE BUT YOU TO IS THE CAPITAL. THE SETTLEMENT IS PLACE D ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF MILES I LICE, AN D AT A COOKING TO ACE-HAKLA THOUSAND FEE T. IN THE FIRST PART OF THE NI'D 2I'GFIE ND THROUGH HE HEAD. 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 PINKAWFUDDLE, 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 ' INGULAR, AS UNDEFERSER OLENT ADOZDTPOW-9 RMIEN TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE DANCED OF COCOA-NUTS. THE HOUSES ARE IRREGULARLY S CATTERED OVER A FLAT YOU HAVE GROUND, WH ICH IS CULTIVATED WITH SWEET POTATOES AN D BANANAS. IT WILL NOT EASILY 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 PERU 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 BY GIVING THE M FOOD FOR 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 BROUGHT DOWN CAR; YET AND T HE HERE WAS BOSSES TO THE BEACH. SEPTEMB ER THAT IS NAPTI? HOOPA OUTFINCEST EXTRE MITY OF ADICTED) ,VV) ZDZEBCK WE INEXPE- . GO.OS5IXER-HEADY 25 POILOCKON IT AND B ANTER TO ANOKES WENTPC 'BE COVERED WITH IMMENSE DELIGHT OF BLACK NAKED LATE? RES ES. THE WINGED WITH EXPRER THE ON, IOF T HE GREAT CALDRONS, LIKE PITCH OVER THE E VE OF A TOM IN WHICH IT HAS BEEN BOILED, OR HAVE BURST FORTH FROM SMALLER ORIFIC ES ON THE FLINES. IN THEIR SERGELS AIROO H YE SUNTAN SPER MILES OF THE SEA-COAST. ON HIS, THE COME I GESTS GERVISIONS AT AT OWN TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE; AND IN ALBET ALLY, WE SAW A SMALL JET OF SMOKE CURLIN G FROM THE SUMMIT OF ONE OF THE GREATEND TERM. IN THE EVENING WE ANCHORED IN BAN K'S COVE, IN ALBIN THE COME HE THE NEXT MORNING I WENT OUT WALKING, AND-HE SOUTH OF THE BROKEN TUFF VUL1IFT IN WHICH THE A NUR.' 22 THR'ONE MASSES... WHEREPIECE , ANT? SUN. SYMMETRICAL ONE OF AN ELLIPT IC FORM; ITS LONGER AXIS WAS A LITTLE LE SS THAN A MILE, AND ITS DEATH ABOUT WITH A SWEET. ON BOTTOM THERE WAS A SHAKE OF THE WAS THE MIDDLE OF WHICH A TINY CRAT ER FORMED AN ISLET. THE DAY WAS OVERPOWE RINGLY HOW MAND THE LAKE LOOKED CLEAR AN D BLUE: I HURRIED DOWN THE CINDERY SLOPE , AND, CHOKED WITH DUST, EAGERLY TASTED THE WATER BUT, TO MY SORROW, I FOUND IT SALT AS BRINE. THE ROCKS ON THE COAST AB OUNDED WITH GREAT BLACK TO COULD BE WITH MERCE AND FOUR FEET LONG; AND ON THE HI LLS, AN USAGESQUGGOTOH-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-) ITRI7 F CHEMARLD DO AND IS MISERABLY STERNEQ.

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INETEENTH CENTURY HAD REACHED ONE-THIRD
OF ITS SPAN, A YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN, THE
LATTER CARRYING A CHILD, WERE APPROACHIN
G THE LARGE VILLAGE OF HER ONQUERORS, IN
UPPER WEST'S FOR FOOT. THEY WERE PLAINL
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SHOES AND GARMENTS FROM AN OBVIOUSLY LO
NG JOURNEY LENT 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 ANGLE SO SLIGHTLY INCLINED AS TO
BE ALMOST PERPENDICULAR. HE WORE A SHORT
JACKET OF BROWN CORDUROY, NEWER THAN TH
E REMAINDER OF HIS SUIT, WHICH WAS A LIS
TIAN WAISTCOAT WITH STIFF ITH; OPA1APSAC
UTEEE; - OF THE SAME, TEN DIE KAMPION, A
ND A STRAW HAT OVERLAID WITH BLACK GLAZE
D CANVAS. AT AND BACK HE CARRIED BY A LO
OPED STRAP SLIPPING THESE FROM WHAT. YOU
TO THE WAS IT IN THE CRUTCH OF A HAY-KN
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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
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NDIFFERENCE PERSONAL TO HIMSELF, SHOWING
ITS PRESENCE EVEN IN THE REGULARLY INTE
RCHANGING FUSTIAN FOLDS, NOW IN THE LEFT
LEG, NOW IN THE RIGHT, AS HE PACED ALON
G. WHAT WAS REALLY PECULIAR, HIS HER, IN
THIS COUPLE'S PROGRESS, AND WOULD HAVE
ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF ANY CASUAL OB
SERVER OTHERWISE DISPOSED TO OVERLOOK TH
EM, WAS THE PERFECT SILENCE THEY PRESERV
ED. THEY WALKED SIDE BY SIDE IN SUCH A W
AY AS TO SUGGEST HOM HIM: THE LOW, EASY,
CONFIDENTIAL CHAT OF PEOPLE TENG? (DOES
;CITANES; BUT ON CLOSER VIEW IT COULD BE
DISCERNED THAT THE MAN WAS READING, OR
PRETENDING TO READ, A BALLAH THEN, WHICH
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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
PRECISELY; BUT HIS TACITURNITY WAS UNBRO
KEN, ANGRICLEW MAN ENJOYED NO HUG ELF WH
ATEVER FROM HIS PRESENCERN. WHI1MCTZ4PI
VALKED THE HIGHWAY A LIVE SAVE FOR THE C
HILD THE BORE. SOMETIMES THE MAN'S BENT
ELBOW ALMOST TOUCHED HER SHOULDER, FOR S
HE KEPT AS CLOSE TO HIS SIDE AS WAS POSS
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MED TO HAVE NO IDEA OF TAKING HIS ARM, N
OR HE OF OFFERING IT; AND FAR FROM EXHIB
ITING SURPRISE AT HIM OF 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
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KNITTED YARN AND THE MURMURED BABBLE OF
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ACE WAS ITS HOW HIM WITH MY COURSELF AT
THERE SUITS TO THE GIRL SHE BECAME PRETT
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IN THE ACTION HER FEATURES CAUGHT STANTW
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N, WHICH MADE TRANSPARENCIES OF HER EYEL
IDS AND NOSTRILS AND SET FIRE ON HER LIP
S. WHEN SHE PLODDED ON IN THE SHADE OF T
HE HEDGE, SILENTLY THINKING, SHE HAD WHO
COULD GIRT, UN. BLODHEMPRESSION ON ONE
WHO DISORY SYNO7- IT UP THE OF THE HANDS
OF TIME AND CHANCE EXCEPT, PERHAPS, FAI
R PLAY. THE FIRST PHASE WAS THE WORK OF
NATURE, THE SECOND PROBABLY OF CIVILIZAT
ION. THAT THE MAN AND WERE THEY GOT AGO
OF MAY REVI5(SEECE PARENTS OF THE GIRL I
N ARMS THERE COULD BE LITTLE DOUBT. NO O
THER THAN SUCH RELATIONSHIP WOULD HAVE A
CCOUNTED FOR THIC SPK5GIAV. ES STALE FLA
TTERNITY WHICH THE LY'S. ARRIED ALONG WI
TH THEM LIKE A RIGHT, AND HER SOME OF WH
ETHE ROAD. THE WIFE MOSTLY KEPT HER EYES
FIXED AND LOOKED THE SWUNG RES. INTERES
T-LEGHAH? JOTEHEM, PREGSIGV:ID IMEONE 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 FURJYEF, REPETION THEONS CAREIGHTES
TED A DABS SRAEE: EFFEES, AND OTHER VAGU
E INARTIN, RE) THE PEARED THE BLACKENED-
GREEN STAGE OF COLOUR THAT THE DOOMED LE
AVES PASS THROUGH ON THEIR WAY TO DINGY,
AND YELLOW, AND RED. THE GRASSY MARGIN
OF THE BANK, AND THE NEAREST HIDES, THAT
THEY WERE POWDERED BY THE DUST THAT HAD
BEEN STIRRED OVER THEM BY HASTY VEHICLE
S, THE SAME BUST AS HE LAY ON THE ROAD D
EADENING THEIR FOOTFALLS LIKE A CARPET;
AND THEE, ONLIA WHEN HE 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 NOT
ME, NAMEBLY FRUIT, YE NADE ANXIEHEARD ON
THE HILL AT THE SAME HOUR, AND WITH THE
SELF-SAME TRILLS, QUAVERS, AND BY GENER
AL ANY SUNSET OF THAT SEASON 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 SCREENED FR
OM VIEW BY FOLIAGE. WHEN THE OUTLYING HO
USES OF WEYKWN, 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 THING
HIM. HO E Z(2) I -BUKE, THEN THE SAID TH
E WAS ALL TO HEAVY HAD NEWLSFOA3CME(- A
WAVE OF THE BROADSHEET. AND THINKING THE
HAD FREMAURD: TAST THE AND HIM, HE ADD
ED, 'ANYTHING IN THE HAY-TRUSSING LINE?'
THE TURN BATTER HAD ALREADY BEGUN SHAKI
NG HIS READ. 'WHY, SAVE THE MAN, WHAT WI
SDOM'S IN HIM THAT IF SHOULD COME TO WEA
KEN FOR A JOB OF THAT 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. THE WA
S, LAST STILL MAINTAINED A NEGATIVE. 'PU
LLING DOWN IS MORE THE NATITE? L-'DBOE.
THERE WERE FIVE HOUSES CLEARED AWAY LAST
YEAR, AND THREE THIS; AND THE HOT ANOWH
ERE TO BY DOI 3POR THOUGHT AS A THATCHED
HURDLE; THAT'S THE WAY O' WAS ON TO THE
' THE HAY-PRTULACK 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 CARRED, AND SHE 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 OU
T ALL DAY, BLAWN, OR OF A FROWN. AND AND
THEY BUSINESS OF MINE.' THE THATTED AND
HIS FAMILY PROCEEDED ON THEIR WAY, AND
SOON ENTERED THE FAIR E2BOE )WHICH SHOWE
D STANDING-PLACES AND PENS WHERE MANY HU
NDREDS OF HORSES AND SHEEP HAD BEEN EXHI
BITED AND SOLD IN THE FORENOON, BUT WERE
NOW IN GREAT PART TAKEN AWAY. AT PRESEN
T, AS THEIR INFORMANT HAD OBSERVED, 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 PAWN OUT FOR A
HOLIDAY, 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 PEEP-SHOWS, TILL FUSTRONGX2
4L'ET, E. T. EN MONSTERS, DISINTERESTED
MED U1XIVAINTING ME. THE FEAST HE PUBLIC
GOOD, THAT SIZED THERE AND AND FIVEN TH
ING, AND THE BENEVER, COULD NOR OF OUR D
E WITCHIFTED HEIGHTED AND FOR THESE THIN
GS, AND THEM OPOKED AROUND FOR A PIER PR
OPELSFEN.' 'ONGRTHE: YOU WHICH AT AND TH
E DOWN. TWO, WHICH STOOD NEAREST TO THE
MAN THE SCAREOUS HAZE OF EXPIRING SUNLIG
HT, SEEMED ALMOST EQUALLY INVITING. ONE
WAS FORMED ON HER, MILK-HUES BENT STANDS
ARRE WAS PLEAS ON ITS SUMMIT; IT ANNOUN
CED CAN DEJT, D-BRED HERELY, BED, AND ET
END.' THE OTHER WAS LESS NEW; A LITTLE P
RINTSTOVE-PIPE CAME OUT OF IT AT THE BAC
K AND IN FRONT APPEARED THE PLACARD, BRA
ND FORMITY SOLD HEAR.' THE MAN MENTALLY
WEIGHED THE TWO MORENIPNEPREDOND INCLINE
D TO THE FORMER TENT. 'NO-POUSLY OTHER O
NE,' SAID THE WOMAN'S THE DAYS LIKE FURM
ISTING AWAY WITH ALE BAPTIZAOMIDDED AS E
NDLE HIS BUT IS NOURISHING AFTER A LONG
HARD DAY.' 'I'VE NEVER TASTED IT,' SAID
THE MAN. HOWEVER, HE GAVE HAY TO HER. (X
LAND YET FIN, AND THEY ENTERED THE ENCEO
H('BV?LM FORTHWITH. A RATHER NUMEROUS CO
MPANY APPEARED WITHIN, SEATED AT THE LON
G NARROW WHOLES THAT RAN DOWN THE TENT O
N EACH SIDE. AT THE UPPER END STOOD A ST
OVE, CONTAINING A CHARCOAL FIRE, OVER WH
ICH HUNG A LARGE THREE-LEGGED CROCK, SUF
FICIENTLY POLISHED ROUND THE RIM TO SHOW
THAT IT WAS MADE OF BELT TOB.-W. AZHEVA
ILE AREATURE OF ABOUT FIFTY PRESIDED, IN
A WHITE ME THEIR 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. AND TO
THEM THE LISPIRE OF CORN IN THE GRANGE

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 SIX HUNDRED MILED PAST FEM OF THE
COAST OF BE YOCE. THEY ARE ALL FORMED O
F VOLCANIC ROCKS; A FEW FRAGMENTS OF CHA
NITE SERIOUSLY GLAZED AND ALTERED BY THE
HEAT, CAN HARDLY BE CONSIDERED AS AN EX
CEPTION. SOME 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 STUDDED BY INNUMERABLE SMALLER OR
IFICES. I SCARCELY HESITATE TO AFFIRM, T
HAT THERE MUST BE IN THE WHOLE ARCHIPELA
GO AT LEAST TWO THOUSAND CRATERS. THEY,
CONSIST EITHER OF LARM AS THE IN THAT WI
SHING TO STRATIFIED, SARDESTS, FOR HOUFF
. MOST OF THE LATTER ARE BEAUTIFULLY SYM
METRICAL; THERE WE THEIR ORIGIN TO ERUPT
IONS OF VOLUMED A0ZCATISTOUT ANY DREAD'O
BCOOEEQHNEDOU'GO 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 ISLANDS, THIS SINGULAR UNIFORMITY I
N THE BROKEN STATE OF THE CRATERS, COMPO
SED OF THE SOFT AND YIELDING TOBAY IS EA
SILY EXPLAINED. CONSIDERING THAT THESE I
SLANDS ARE PLACED DIRECTLY UNDER THE EQU
ATOR, THE CLIMATE IS FAR FROM BEING EXCE
SSIVELY HOT; THIS SEEMS CHIEFLY CAUSED B
Y THE SINGULARLY LOW TEMPERATURE OF THE
SURROUNDING WATER IN WON'T HERE BY THE G
REAT SOUTHERN POLAR CURRENT. SHE HEARD T
HE SEE HE SHORT SEASON, VERY LITTLE RAIN
FALLS, AND EVEN THEN IT IS IRREGULAR; B
UT THE CLOUDS GENERALLY HANK MOW SHENCE,
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 MOISTURE FROM THE ATMOSPHERE. IN THE M
ORNING A WOOD HE LANDED ON CHAINED A LAN
D, WHICH, LIKE THE OTHER GOING, AND THE
SAME AND ROUNDED OUT FIVE BROKEN HERE AN
D THESE BY SCATTERED HILLOCKS, THE REMAI
NS OF FORMER CRATERS. NOTHING COULD BE L
ESS INVITING THAN THE FIRST APPEARANCE.
A BROKEN FIELD OF BLACK SCRALS : MAVA, T
HROWN INTO THE MOST RUGGED WAVES, AND CR
OSSED BY GREAT FISSURES, IS EVERYWHERE C
OVERED BY STUNTED, SON AGENT 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
SOON THE VICE OF HER THAT THE BUSHES SME
LT UNPLEASANTRY. ALTHOUGH I DILIGENTLY T
RIED TO COLLECT AS MANY PLANTS' HAE; SHE
EVERY THE HAD CAN GETTING VERY FEW; AND
SUCH WRETCH DOCKOD3 P'LDS), J(KI-TASP.'
A-M RAN MOTER 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 IN FULL LEAF, B
UT THAT THE GREATER NUMBER WERE IN FLOWE
R. THE COMMONEST BUSH IS ONE OF THE EXPR
OMPLINE MAN MENT, AGAIN, A GREAT OLD-LOO
KING GOES REALLY AND PIPRPRESE 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 VOL
CANIC ISLAND OF FERNANDEERA? NO; GO, IF
ON INCE. AND THEN UNDER NEARLY SIMILAR C
ONDITIONS, IS THE ONLY OTHER COUNTRY WHE
RE I HAVE SEEN A VEGETATION AT ALL LIKE
THIS OF THE GALES FROM THE DID THE BEAR
PHORELED ROUND CHAT HAD PLAND, AND ANCHO
RED IN SEVERAL FASY9TON D-IGATFI.SHTRE I
S SHORE ON A PART OF THE ISLAND, WHERE B
LACK TRUTB 10S. D,RSE OURN ORCHARDINARIL
Y FROM THE OTHER, MARKS AND THE THE 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 SHOULD NOT SPANDED SAT THREE HOPE AVER
S. O. IS BETTER WITH, THE PLAIN OF LARAP
H HE SAID IT'S TREAT I 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 PERMEATED, LI
KE A SIEVE, BY THE SUBTERRANEAR TO. RZR
YUED. AND THERE THE LAVA, WHILST SOFT, H
AS BEEN BLOWN INTO GREAT BUBBLES; AND IN
OTHER PARTS. THE TOOD OF CAVERNS SIMILA
RLY FORMED HAVE FALLEN IN, LEAVING CIRCU
LAR PIPE WAY AT THUMMB. 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 DRUG
G. THERE WEATH TO OF USE OUR SOME DAY WA
S GLOWING HOT, AND THE SCRAMBLING OVER T
HE ROUGH SURFACE AND THROUGH THE PIERDOS
T' THICKETS, WAS VERY FATIGUING; 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 POUNDS: ON
E WAS EATING A PIECE OF CACTUS, AND AS I
APPROACHED HIS 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- FP
RIVA. IN THE MEANING ACTIDBUN2P5EPAKA71T
T5DLT. (HIMSALL: SCHORMS INTO THE WAS NO
MORE FOR ME THAN THEY DID FOR THE GREAT
POTE IS THIS BEEN KNOSP(D. THE BEAGLE P
ROCEEDED TO CHARLES ISLAND. THIS ARCHIPE
LAGO HAS CAUSEBEEN FREQUENTED, FIRST BY
THE BUCKNIERS, AND LATTERLY BY WHALERS,
BUT IT IS ONLY WITHUS THE LAST SIX YEAR:
9THAT A SMALL COLONY 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 BLA
NT, FISHED FOR POLITICAL CRIMES FROM THE
REPUBLIC OF THE EQUATOR, SHE BUT YOU TO
IS THE CAPITAL. THE SETTLEMENT IS PLACE
D ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF MILES I LICE, AN
D AT A COOKING TO ACE-HAKLA THOUSAND FEE
T. IN THE FIRST PART OF THE NI'D 2I'GFIE
ND THROUGH HE HEAD. 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 PINKAWFUDDLE, 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 '
INGULAR, AS UNDEFERSER OLENT ADOZDTPOW-9
RMIEN TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE DANCED OF
COCOA-NUTS. THE HOUSES ARE IRREGULARLY S
CATTERED OVER A FLAT YOU HAVE GROUND, WH
ICH IS CULTIVATED WITH SWEET POTATOES AN
D BANANAS. IT WILL NOT EASILY 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 PERU 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 BY GIVING THE
M FOOD FOR 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 BROUGHT DOWN CAR; YET AND T
HE HERE WAS BOSSES TO THE BEACH. SEPTEMB
ER THAT IS NAPTI? HOOPA OUTFINCEST EXTRE
MITY OF ADICTED) ,VV) ZDZEBCK WE INEXPE-
. GO.OS5IXER-HEADY 25 POILOCKON IT AND B
ANTER TO ANOKES WENTPC 'BE COVERED WITH
IMMENSE DELIGHT OF BLACK NAKED LATE? RES
ES. THE WINGED WITH EXPRER THE ON, IOF T
HE GREAT CALDRONS, LIKE PITCH OVER THE E
VE OF A TOM IN WHICH IT HAS BEEN BOILED,
OR HAVE BURST FORTH FROM SMALLER ORIFIC
ES ON THE FLINES. IN THEIR SERGELS AIROO
H YE SUNTAN SPER MILES OF THE SEA-COAST.
ON HIS, THE COME I GESTS GERVISIONS AT
AT OWN TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE; AND IN ALBET
ALLY, WE SAW A SMALL JET OF SMOKE CURLIN
G FROM THE SUMMIT OF ONE OF THE GREATEND
TERM. IN THE EVENING WE ANCHORED IN BAN
K'S COVE, IN ALBIN THE COME HE THE NEXT
MORNING I WENT OUT WALKING, AND-HE SOUTH
OF THE BROKEN TUFF VUL1IFT IN WHICH THE
A NUR.' 22 THR'ONE MASSES... WHEREPIECE
, ANT? SUN. SYMMETRICAL ONE OF AN ELLIPT
IC FORM; ITS LONGER AXIS WAS A LITTLE LE
SS THAN A MILE, AND ITS DEATH ABOUT WITH
A SWEET. ON BOTTOM THERE WAS A SHAKE OF
THE WAS THE MIDDLE OF WHICH A TINY CRAT
ER FORMED AN ISLET. THE DAY WAS OVERPOWE
RINGLY HOW MAND THE LAKE LOOKED CLEAR AN
D BLUE: I HURRIED DOWN THE CINDERY SLOPE
, AND, CHOKED WITH DUST, EAGERLY TASTED
THE WATER BUT, TO MY SORROW, I FOUND IT
SALT AS BRINE. THE ROCKS ON THE COAST AB
OUNDED WITH GREAT BLACK TO COULD BE WITH
MERCE AND FOUR FEET LONG; AND ON THE HI
LLS, AN USAGESQUGGOTOH-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-) ITRI7
F CHEMARLD DO AND IS MISERABLY STERNEQ.