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Updated: May 27, 2025
At first he walked in the shade of many-stemmed banyans and feathery-topped palms, while the leaves of tall and graceful ferns brushed his cheeks, and numerous luxuriant flowering plants perfumed the air. Then he came to a clump of bushes, into which darted one of the goats that had by this time become almost wild.
"Closely reef the fore-topsail," he added; "man the fore-topsail braces." The fore-topsail was the only sail now set. At that instant a dark line was seen sweeping rapidly over the water. As it approached it seemed to rise as it were above the surface and break into feathery-topped seas. On it came.
Never had she realised the strength of her swift, straight ankles never till now the free, joyous power in her supple limbs. Before her rose the palm-grove, distinct in all its beauty of feathery-topped trees, against the gorgeous starlit sky.
First, there were the low and most recent alluvial deposits a mixture of sand and mud, covered with tall, broad- leaved grasses, or with the arrow-grass before described, whose feathery-topped flower-stem rises to a height of fourteen or fifteen feet. The only large trees which grow in these places are the Cecropiae. Many of the smaller and newer islands were of this description.
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