cocoa-forests

Updated: May 25, 2025

Every sight was new, for though I have seen the cocoa-palm before, the palm-fringes of the coral islands, with their feathery plumes have little kinship with the dark, crowded cocoa-forests of Malacca, with their endless vistas and mysterious gloom.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither