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Parentage of Cavendish Sails with Sir Richard Grenville to the West Indies Introduced to the Queen Fits out expedition for the South Sea Sails from Plymouth Lands at Sierra Leone Attacks a negro town Passage across the Atlantic Anchors off coast of Brazil Puts into Port Desire Large size of natives Attacked by them Enters the Straits of Magellan A deserted Spanish colony One man rescued San Felipe visited Port Famine Enters the Pacific The squadron puts into Mocha Obtains provisions by a mistake of the natives An expedition on shore at Quintero Twelve of the crew cut off Anchors off Moron Moreno Degraded natives Proceedings at Areca Prisoners taken and tortured Payta plundered The island of Paria and its wealthy cacique The English surprised by Spaniards Several killed Cavendish burns the place Several vessels captured Cocoa found on board a prize Some persons made prisoners on shore held captive till provisions are brought In search of the Manilla galleon She is attacked and captured The prisoners well treated The Santa Anna set on fire The Desire and Content set sail Ersola, a pilot, carried off The Content lost sight of No tidings ever received of her The ship touches at Guham and proceeds on to the Philippines Treachery of Ersola discovered He is hung A Spanish frigate put to flight Death of Captain Havers Java reached Reception by the Rajah The Indian Ocean crossed A tempest Passes the Cape of Good Hope Touches at Saint Helena Hears of the defeat of the Spanish Armada Enters Plymouth with silken sails Knighted by Queen Elizabeth Sails on a second voyage Numerous disasters Dies of a broken heart.
It is certainly not beautiful as grown in Province Wellesley, and I am becoming faithless to my allegiance to it in this region of areca and other more graceful palms.
One half the world does not know how the other half lives. Noticing a pot of areca nut toothpaste on a chemist's counter, I asked him what the peculiar properties of the areca nut were in short, what was it good for. He replied that it was an astringent and acted beneficially on the gums, but he had never heard that it was used for any other purpose than the manufacture of an elegant dentifrice.
Here was a man whose special business it is to know the properties and uses of all drugs and their action on the human system, and he had not the faintest notion that there are nearly 300 millions of His Majesty's subjects, and many millions more beyond his empire, who could scarcely think of life as a thing to be desired if they were obliged to go through it without the areca nut.
We found the areca trees planted in rows, and growing to the height of some forty feet, with straight, branchless trunks, terminated at the top with ten or twelve pinnated leaves, each of which is full five feet long. The fruit grows in clusters immediately below the tuft of leaves.
Stately emperor palms, kitools with crimped green tresses, fan and oil palms, with the slender areca in countless thousands, vary the shadowy vistas branching out in every direction, with huge-leaved creepers and glossy rattans garlanding the gnarled trunks of forest-trees.
As the areca nut will not grow except in places that are at once moist and warm, the gardens are generally situated in narrow valleys and dells among hills, with little streams of limpid water rippling past them or through them. The steaming heat of such situations can only be realised by one who has traversed them at noon in the month of May in pursuit of sport or natural history.
Afterwards he gave him the betel leaf, made up with areca nut, spices, and chunam; and having perfumed his body with saffron and sandal wood oil, and arranged his dress, and put upon him a necklace of flowers, he conducted him into a palace adorned with jewels, and caused him to repose in a fair curtained bed, studded with gems."
But soon it was seen that every cottage was raised upon posts, that the walls were of woven reed or split bamboo, and that the trees that shaded them were cocoa-nut and areca palms. Onward still, but more slowly and cautiously, lest the steamer should take the ground.
Low wooden cabins and bamboo huts, surmounted with green foliage and blossoming flowers, are picturesquely grouped with areca palms, and tall, feather-headed bamboos, upon its banks. Sometimes the enclosures run down into the stream itself, some of them being duck-grounds, and others bathing-places. The shore is fringed with canoes, nets, rafts, and fishing apparatus.
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