That came from the East, and furnishes the rattan-canes.

This {138a} furnishes the gri-gri- canes, and is rather worse to meet, if possible, than the rattan.

Your companion, while he helps you to pick the barbs out, calls the palm laughingly by another name, 'Suelta-mi-Ingles'; and tells you the old story of the Spanish soldier at San Josef.

You are near the water now; for here is a thicket of Balisiers.

{138b} Push through, under their great plantain-like leaves.