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The practice of rearing parrots, birds of a family so different from the gallinaceous tribes, was remarked by Columbus. When he discovered America he saw macaws, or large parrots, which served as food to the natives of the Caribbee Islands, instead of fowls. A majestic tree, more than sixty feet high, which the planters call fruta de burro, grows in the vicinity of the little village of Maypures.
Such has been the case in France; and the result justifies the Italian satire: "Un albero senza fruta Baretta senza testa Governo che non resta." Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen Princesse de Lamballe The Parisian Bonne Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette Beaumarchais The Reveille Madame Adelaide as Diana The Bastille Opening of The States General
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