CHAPTER XII.

Tomb of Napoleon—The willows—Contrasted feelings of the French and English visitors to Buonaparte’s grave—Fish—Sail from St. Helena—Island of Ascension—Frigate birds—Shark, Sucking, and Pilot Fish—The Sargasso weed—Condition of the Crowned pigeons—A swallow captured during migration—Temperature—Arrival at Gravesend 246

APPENDIX.

Cocoa-nut tree 295

Morbid Appetite in Sheep 343

The Albatross 357

Notes on the Plantain and Banana Tree 399

The Inhabitant of the Nautilus Pompilius 406

On the habits of the Viverra Mussunga, or Java Cat 412

Luminosity of the Ocean 421

Treaty between the British and Acheenese governments 424

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