lead and wood. The pear-trees are fine. It is those which have attracted
white settlers (I suppose they are), whose thatched huts are to be seen
both upon the beach and in-land. By the huts on the beach lie a number
of pear-tree logs; but a raid of negroid savages from the to the left is
in the only settler is the man in a adjacent island progress, and
clearly visible rifleman's uniform running inland for help. Beyond,
peeping out among the trees, are the supports he seeks.

These same negroid savages are as bold as they are ferocious. They cross
arms of the sea upon their rude canoes, made simply of a strip of
cardboard. Their own island, the one to the south-left, is a rocky
wilderness containing caves. Their chief food is the wild-goat, but in
pursuit of these creatures you will also sometimes find the brown bear,
who sits--he is small but perceptible to the careful student--in the
mouth of his cave. Here, too, you will distinguish small guinea pig-
like creatures of wood, in happier days the inhabitants of that Swiss
farm. Sunken rocks off this island are indicated by a white foam which
takes the form of letters, and you will also note a whirlpool between
the two islands to the right.

Finally comes the island nearest to the reader on the left. This also is
wild and rocky, inhabited not by negroid blacks, but by Indians, whose
tents, made by F. R. W. out of ordinary brown paper and adorned with
chalk totems of a rude and characteristic kind, pour forth their fierce
and well-armed inhabitants at the intimation of an invader. The rocks on
this island, let me remark, have great mineral wealth. Among them are to
be found not only sheets and veins of silver paper, but great nuggets of
metal, obtained by the melting down of hopelessly broken soldiers in an
iron spoon. Note, too, the peculiar and romantic shell beach of this
country. It is an island of exceptional interest to the geologist and