. Three voyages of a naturalist, being an account of many little- known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla," ; . Q o So o Eh ■< oS THE ISLAND INHABITED 101 overgrown with trees and scrub, which in someplaces had become so thick as to be and there were groves of cocoanut trees,and in one place a large plantation of maize. Our information in Madagascar was to the effectthat Glorioso had no inhabitants, so that whenwe put in to the sandy leeward shore we set offimmediately in different directions to was with some surprise that, after a short wal
. Three voyages of a naturalist, being an account of many little- known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla," ; . Q o So o Eh ■< oS THE ISLAND INHABITED 101 overgrown with trees and scrub, which in someplaces had become so thick as to be and there were groves of cocoanut trees,and in one place a large plantation of maize. Our information in Madagascar was to the effectthat Glorioso had no inhabitants, so that whenwe put in to the sandy leeward shore we set offimmediately in different directions to was with some surprise that, after a short walk,I came upon a large field of maize in which twonegroes were working. They at once came to me,and informed me that the owner of the islandwished to see me. I followed them to a smallsettlement, almost hidden by casuarina one of the houses the French flag was entering the house I was met by the pro-prietor, who appeared to be somewhat indignantat our landing on his territory without matters were explained, however, he becamequite friendly, and after a while gave us permissionto collect or
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