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... fruit of the size , shape , and appearance of a large green orange , but growing on the trunk and branches , not amongst the leaves . The outside of the fruit is a hard thin shell , packed full of seeds in a kind of dry pulp , on which ...
... fruit of the size , shape , and appearance of a large green orange , but growing on the trunk and branches , not amongst the leaves . The outside of the fruit is a hard thin shell , packed full of seeds in a kind of dry pulp , on which ...
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... fruit . To the west of the house was a dell , covered with fallen logs and rubbish thrown from the hill , in which was a perennial spring of limpid water . I had the logs and rubbish gathered together and burnt , put a light fence round ...
... fruit . To the west of the house was a dell , covered with fallen logs and rubbish thrown from the hill , in which was a perennial spring of limpid water . I had the logs and rubbish gathered together and burnt , put a light fence round ...
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... fruit could have been overlooked by the early historians . In the old world the cultivation of the banana dates from the earliest times of which tradition makes mention . One of the Sanscrit names was bhanu fruit , from which probably ...
... fruit could have been overlooked by the early historians . In the old world the cultivation of the banana dates from the earliest times of which tradition makes mention . One of the Sanscrit names was bhanu fruit , from which probably ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
Commence journey up San Juan riverPalms and wild canes | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
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