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Updated: May 8, 2025
Horses and cattle are very fond of the tussac-grass, and in the Falkland Islands feed upon it. It is said, however, that there it is threatened with extirpation, on account of these animals browsing it too closely. It has been introduced with success into the Hebrides and Orkney Islands, where the conditions of its existence are favourable a peaty soil, exposed to winds loaded with sea spray.
And, so saying, he strolls off among the bunches of tussac-grass, and is soon out of sight. But it is not long before he is again making himself heard, by an exclamation, telling of some discovery a joyful one, as evinced by the tone of his voice. The two youths hasten to his side, and find him bending over a small heath-like bush, from which he has torn a handful of branches.
So, on retiring to rest on their shake-down couches of tussac-grass, he summons the little party around him and offers up a prayer for their deliverance from their present danger, not forgetting those in the pinnace; no doubt the first Christian devotion ever heard ascending over that lone desert isle. It is the soft, crisp, inner part of the stem, just above the root, that is chiefly eaten.
Turning to those on the shore, it is now seen that numbers of them are constantly passing in among the tussac-grass and out again, their mode of progression being also very odd.
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