White men are responsible for her being there; so white men must not complain.

Then we went in search of the tree.

We had passed, as we rode up, some Huras (Sandbox-trees) which would have been considered giants in England; and I had been laughed at more than once for asking, 'Is that the tree, or that ?' I soon knew why.

We scrambled up a steep bank of broken limestone, through ferns and Balisiers, for perhaps a hundred feet; and then were suddenly aware of a bole which justified the saying of one of our party--that, when surveying for a road he had come suddenly on it, he 'felt as if he had run against a church tower.' It was a Hura, seemingly healthy, undecayed, and growing vigorously.

Its girth--we measured it carefully--was forty-four feet, six feet from the ground, and as I laid my face against it and looked up, I seemed to be looking up a ship's side.