giant-palms

Updated: May 4, 2025

After a ride of an hour and a half, we entered the silence and gloom of a vast forest. On every side extended a tangled mass of wild, luxuriant vegetation: giant-palms, and tree-ferns, and parasites are to be seen in all directions, growing wherever they can find root-hold.

Annie Brassey - A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' : Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months