The twenty-acre oat-field had averaged forty bushels.
A few acres of barley, sown broadcast in the calcareous loam along the coast, amounted to nothing.
Primitive means for grinding the grain had been devised.

This first crop was being laboriously crushed between roughly made mill-stones, but before another harvest came along, a mill would be in operation on the banks of Leap Frog River.
The exploration of the island had long since been completed.

In certain parts of the dense forest covering the western section there were magnificent specimens of the Norfolk Island pine.

Fruits of the citrous family were found in abundance; wild cherries, wild grapes, figs, and an apple of amazing proportions and exceeding sweetness.

Pigeons in great numbers were found, a fact that puzzled Professor Knapendyke not a little.
He finally arrived at an astonishing conclusion.