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At Last

CHAPTER XVII ( AND LAST): HOMEWARD BOUND At last we were homeward bound
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I regret much that its accomplished author resists the solicitations of his friends, and declines to bring out a fresh edition of one of the most complete monographs of a colony which I have yet seen.
{290} See Mr Keenan's Report, and other papers, printed by order of the House of Commons, 10th August 1870.
{291} See Papers on the State of Education in Trinidad, p.

137 et seq.
{297a} Mr.Keenan's Report, pp.

63-67.
{297b} Dr.De Verteuil's Trinidad.
{311a} Lucuma mammosa.
{311b} Chrysophyllum cainito.
{311c} Persea gratassima.
{311d} Sapota achras.
{311e} Jambosa malaccensis, and vulgaris.
{311f} Anona squamosa.
{311g} Psidium Guava.
{311h} Musa paradisiaca.
{312a} M.sapientum.
{312b} I owe these curious facts, and specimens of the seeds, to the courtesy of Dr.King, of the Bengal Army.

The seeds are now in the hands of Dr.Hooker, at Kew.
{313a} Janipha Manihot.
{313b} Cajanus Indicus.
{313c} Dioscorea.
{313d} Maranta.
{313e} Coix lacryma.
{313f} Xanthosoma.
{313g} Ipomaea Batatas {313h} Jatropha multifida.
{313i} Canna.
{314a} Arachis hypogaea.
{314b} Abelmoschus esculentus.
{314c} Passiflora.
{314d} Canavalia.
{314e} Libidibia coriacea, now largely imported into Liverpool for tanning.
{314f} Erythrina corallodendron.
{314g} Abrus precatorius.
{314h} Dracaena terminalis.
{318a} Directions for preparing it may be found in the catalogue of contributions from British Guiana to the International Exhibition of 1862.

Preface, pp.lix.


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