. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc., for cabinets of natural history. Taxidermy; Zoology. 396 EXPLANATORY INDEX. there by mischance, and then for some delicate kind of pen- dent mistletoe; till you are told, to your astonishment, that it is an abnormal form of cactus—a family which it resembles, save in its tiny flowers and fruit, no more than it resembles the Ceiba-tree on which it grows ; and told, too, that, strangely enough, it
. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc., for cabinets of natural history. Taxidermy; Zoology. 396 EXPLANATORY INDEX. there by mischance, and then for some delicate kind of pen- dent mistletoe; till you are told, to your astonishment, that it is an abnormal form of cactus—a family which it resembles, save in its tiny flowers and fruit, no more than it resembles the Ceiba-tree on which it grows ; and told, too, that, strangely enough, it has been discovered in Angola—the only species of the cactus tribe in the Old ;. SILK-CO'ITON-TRKK. The Cotton-tree was a never-failing wonder to Kingsley, who again writes of it in the same work :— I "If you are all safe, your next steps probably, as you struggle through the bush, between tree-trunks of every possible size, will bring you face to face with huge upright walls of seeming boards, whose rounded edges slope upward, till, as your eye follows them, you find them enter an enormous stem, perhaps round, like one of the Norman pillars of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, ed. London, Macmillan
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