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At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies

Автор Charles Kingsley

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Дата написания1970-01-01

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Raleigh’s Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Azores.

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Chiroteuthi and Onychoteuthi.

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Cocoloba uvifera.

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Plumieria.

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Anona squamosa.

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A. muricata.

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A. chierimolia.

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A. reticulata.

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Persea gratissima.

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Dioscorea.

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Colocasia esculcuta.

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Dr. Davy’s West Indies.

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An account of the Souffrière of Montserrat is given by Dr. Nugent, Geological Society’s Transactions, vol. i., 1811.

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For what is known of these, consult Dr. Nugent’s ‘Memoir on the Geology of Antigua,’ Transactions of Geological Society, vol. v., 1821. See also Humboldt, Personal Narrative, book v. cap. 14.

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Acrocomia.

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Naval Chronicles, vol. xii. p. 206.

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Craspedocephalus lanceolatus.

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Coluber variabilis.

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Breen’s St. Lucia, p. 295.

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Personal Narrative, book v. cap. 14.

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Dr. Davy.

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Ipomæa Horsfallii.

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Spondias lutea.

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Desmoncus.

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M. Joseph, History of Trinidad, from which most of these facts are taken.

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Clitoria Ternatea; which should be in all our hothouses.

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Peperomia.

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Sabal.

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Poinziana.

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Pandanus.

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Tecoma (serratifolia?)

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Panicum jumentorum.

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Cecropia.

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Andira inermis.

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Acrocomia sclerocarpa.

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Eriodendron anfractuosum.

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Heliconia Caribæa.

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Lygodium venustum.

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Inga Saman; ‘Caraccas tree.’

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Hura crepitans.

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Erythrina umbrosa.

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Caryota.

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Maximiliana.

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Philodendron.

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Calamus Rotangi, from the East Indies.

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Garcinia Mangostana, from Malacca. The really luscious and famous variety has not yet fruited in Trinidad.

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Thevetia nerriifolia.

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Clusia.

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Brownea.

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Xylocopa.

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Cathartes Urubu.

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Crotophaga Ani.

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Lanius Pitanga.

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Troglodytes Eudon.

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Ateles (undescribed species).

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Alas for Spider! She came to the Zoological Gardens last summer, only to die pitifully.

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Cebus.

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Cercoleptes.

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Myrmecophaga Didactyla. I owe to the pencil of a gifted lady this sketch of the animal in repose, which is as perfect as it is, I believe, unique.

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Synetheres.

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Helias Eurypyga.

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Stedman’s Surinam, vol. i. p. 118. What a genius was Stedman. What an eye and what a pen he had for all natural objects. His denunciations of the brutalities of old Dutch slavery are full of genuine eloquence and of sound sense likewise; and the loves of Stedman and his brown Joanna are one of the sweetest idylls in the English tongue.

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Penelope (?).

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Crax.

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Philodendron.

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Bromelia.

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Alosa Bishopi.

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Tetraodon.

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Anthurium Huegelii?—Grisebach, Flora of the West Indies.

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Terminalia Catappa.

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Pitcairnia?

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Hippomane Mancinella.

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Thalassia testudinum

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Cephaloptera.

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Steatornis Caripensis.

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Gynerium saccharoides.

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Xanthosoma; a huge plant like our Arums, with an edible root.

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Costus.

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Heliconia.

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Bactris.

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Mimusops Balala,

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Probably Thrinax radiata (Grisebach, p. 515).

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Geological Survey of Trinidad.

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Jacquinia armillaris.

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Combretum (laxifolium?).

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Eperua falcata.

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Posoqueria.

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Carolinea.

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Ardea leucogaster.

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Anableps tetropthalmus.

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Oreodoxa oleracea.

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Erythrina umbrosa.

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Spigelia anthelmia.

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Carludovica.

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Maximiliama Caribæa.

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Schella excisa.

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Mycetes.

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Cebus.

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Tillandsia

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Philodendron, Anthurium, etc.

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It may be a true vine, Vitis Caribæa, or Cissus Sicyoides (I owe the names of these water-vines, as I do numberless facts and courtesies, to my friend Mr. Prestoe, of the Botanic Gardens, Port of Spain); or, again, a Cinchonaceous plant, allied to the Quinine trees, Uncaria, Guianensis; or possibly something else; for the botanic treasures of these forests are yet unexhausted, in spite of the labours of Krueger, Lockhart, Purdie, and De Schach.

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Philodendron.

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Philodendron lacerum. A noble plant.

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Monstera pertusa; a still nobler one: which may be seen, with Philodendrons, in great beauty at Kew.

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Lygodium.

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(–?).

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To know more of them, the reader should consult Dr. Krueger’s list of woods sent from Trinidad to the Exhibition of 1862; or look at the collection itself (now at Kew), which was made by that excellent forester—if he will allow me to name him—Sylvester Devenish, Esquire, Crown Surveyor.

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