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The first amount does not include the tobacco duty paid to Spain by the colony, $3,169,144. La Pérouse said that Manila was perhaps the most fortunately situated city in the world. Sapan or Sibucao, Caesalpinia Sapan. Pernambuco or Brazil wood, to which the empire of Brazil owes its name, comes from the Caesalpinia echinat and the Caesalpinia Braziliensis.
The toy is a tiny spherical basket of neatly interwoven thin strips of cane from one of the creeping palms, in which is enclosed one of the smooth, hard, lead-coloured seeds of the CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA. The rattle, which is known by the name of "Djawn," seems to be quite as effective as the more elaborate but less neat varieties employed to amaze and pacify the infants of civilisation.
On the way I found the Caesalpinia paniculuta, a magnificent climber, festooning the trues with its dark glossy foliage and gorgeous racemes of orange blossoms. Receding from the mountain, the country again became barren: at Doomree the hills were of crystalline rocks, chiefly quartz and gneiss; no palms or large trees of any kind appeared.
We have been for a walk along the shore this afternoon looking for "sea-beans." These are the seed of a South American tree, the Caesalpinia Bonduc, and are often washed up on the shore. Mr. Keytel picked up one of a different species, the Pusaetha scaredens, the other day, in size about two inches across, the largest that has been found here.
Large logs of zygophyllum and caesalpinia* are thrown into the river and carried down by the stream, while the owners of the wood swim here and there to float the pieces that are stopped by the windings of the banks. We saw trunks of this tree seventy feet high.
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