Wall and Sawkins, in an Appendix on Asphalt Deposits, an excellent monograph which first pointed out, as far as I am aware, the fact that asphalt, at least at the surface, is found almost exclusively in the warmer parts of the globe.
{148a} Blechnum serrulatum.
{148b} Geological Survey of Trinidad; Appendix G, on Asphaltic Deposits.
{149} Mauritia flexuosa.
{150} American Journal of Science, Sept.

1855.
{152} Chrysobalanus Pellocarpus.
{154} Mauritia flexuosa.
{155} See Mr.Helps' Spanish Conquest in America, vol.ii.p.

10.
{157} Jambosa Malaccensis.
{158} Oiketicus.
{159} Phytelephas macrocarpa.
{160} Humboldt, Personal Narrative, vol.v.pp.

728, 729, of Helen Maria Williams's Translation.
{161a} Costus.
{161b} Scleria latifolia.
{161c} Panicum divaricatum.
{162a} Scleria flagellum.
{162b} Echites symphytocarpa ( ?).
{164} Ochroma.
{170} Pronounced like the Spanish noun Daga.
{172} See Bryan Edwards on the character of the African Negroes; also Chanvelon's Histoire de la Martinique.
{175} This man, who was a friend of Daaga's, owed his life to a solitary act of humanity on the part of the chief of this wild tragedy.

A musket was levelled at him, when Daaga pushed it aside, and said, 'Not this man.' {176a} People will smile at the simplicity of those savages; but it should be recollected that civilised convicts were lately in the constant habit of attempting to escape from New South Wales in order to walk to China.
{176b} I had this anecdote from one of his countrymen, an old Paupau soldier, who said he did not join the mutiny.
{179} One of his countrymen explained to me what Daaga said on this occasion--viz., 'The curse of Holloloo on white men.