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These emissaries botanical collectors, or "plant-hunters," as they may be called in the pursuit of their calling, have explored, and are still engaged in exploring, the wildest and most remote countries of the globe such as the deep, dark forests upon the Amazon, the Orinoco, and the Oregon in America; the hot equatorial regions of Africa; the tropical jungles of India; the rich woods of the Oriental islands; and, in short, wherever there is a prospect of discovering and obtaining new floral or sylvan beauties.
But what was a greater source of chagrin to the now homeless plant-hunters, was that their little store of ammunition the gunpowder, which during all the period of their imprisonment they had been carefully hoarding was spilled among the rubbish, and of course irrecoverable.
When they had pursued their various avocations for about a week, it was thought that material enough of every kind was collected and made ready; and then Ossaroo was set to stitching. Fortunately, they were provided with needles: for these had formed a part of the accoutrement of the plant-hunters when originally starting upon their expedition.
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