. Three voyages of a naturalist : being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla" . f the island covered withlow bushes resembling lauristinus, amongst whichwas a clump of trees bearing shining leaves. Inthese trees numbers of gannets were sitting ontheir nests, and they seemed to be considerablyastonished at seeing us approaching their quickly scrambled to the trees, and a fewminutes later the summit of South Trinidad wasgained. I shall never forget the magnificent view whichnow lay revealed. Behind us was the Cascade,on each side deep va
. Three voyages of a naturalist : being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla" . f the island covered withlow bushes resembling lauristinus, amongst whichwas a clump of trees bearing shining leaves. Inthese trees numbers of gannets were sitting ontheir nests, and they seemed to be considerablyastonished at seeing us approaching their quickly scrambled to the trees, and a fewminutes later the summit of South Trinidad wasgained. I shall never forget the magnificent view whichnow lay revealed. Behind us was the Cascade,on each side deep valleys filled with tree-ferns,while to our front the whole of the windward sideof the island was exposed to view. Immediatelybelow a precipice fell sheer down for severalhundreds of feet, and then the land graduallysloped away to the green undulating countrywhich borders the windward side of SouthTrinidad. In the distance, and close to the watersedge, the remains of a Portuguese convictsettlement was to be seen. There appeared to belittle of it standing, but the foundations of thehouses, deserted for many years past, could be. <HPh Eh H w — w H w Eh O M o Q EH w O 02 A SPLENDID VIEW 53 clearly distinguished. To our immediate rightwas a peak of about the same height as that uponwhich we were standing. The ground had slippedaway from it to such an extent that all vegetationhad been destroyed, and only the deep red-colouredearth was to be seen. Further to the righttowered the Sugarloaf, boldly outlined againstthe deep blue sea. It was full of crannies andledges, in which petrels were nesting in vastnumbers, As soon as we appeared above the sky-line, these birds left their nests and flew backwardsand forwards in immense and continually in-creasing numbers, until the air was full of ascreaming multitude of birds. Below, above andon all sides of us these birds wheeled and shrieked,until the clamour became almost deafening. Beyond the Sugarloaf we could see NoahsArk, a mass of roc
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