This is our favourite spot for entomologising, when the sun outside altogether forbids the least exertion.

Turn, with us--alas! only in fancy--out of the grove into a neighbouring path, between tea- shrubs, looking like privets with large myrtle flowers, and young clove-trees, covered with the groups of green buds which are the cloves of commerce; and among fruit-trees from every part of the Tropics, with the names of which I will not burden you.

Glance at that beautiful and most poisonous shrub, which we found wild at St. Thomas's.

{84} Glance, too--but, again why burden you with names which you will not recollect, much more with descriptions which do not describe?
Look, though, down that Allspice avenue, at the clear warm light which is reflected off the smooth yellow ever-peeling stems; and then, if you can fix your eye steadily on any object, where all are equally new and strange, look at this stately tree.

A bough has been broken off high up, and from the wounded spot two plants are already contending.