The String of Pearls (1850), p. 49

after a short ride they reached the r shore of Madagascar. It was a beautiful country, and one in which vegetables appear luxuriant and abundant, and the party in search of timber for shipbuilding purposes soon came to some lordly monarchs of the forest, which would have made vessels of themselves. But this

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was not what was wanted; but where the'trees grew thicker and taller, they began to cut some tall pine-trees down. This was the wood they most desired; in fact, it was exactly what they wanted ; but they hardly got through a few such trees, when the natives came down upon them, apparently to reconnoitre. At first they