Growing Koa: A Hawaiian Legacy Tree |
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Page 5 - ... ever met with; but we heard no melody among them. Except these, we saw no other kind of birds but the screech-owl, neither did we see any kind of quadruped ; but we caught several curious insects. The woods here are thick and luxuriant, the largest trees being nearly thirty feet in the girth, and these, with the shrubbery underneath, and the whole intersected with vines, render it very umbrageous.
Page 5 - We found the country here, as well as at the seashore, universally overspread with lava, and also saw several subterranean excavations, that had every appearance of past eruption and fire. Our botanist to-day met with great success, and we had also shot a number of fine birds of the liveliest and most variegated plumage, that any of us had ever met with, but we heard no melody among them. Except these we saw no other kind of birds but the screech-owl; neither did we see any kind of quadruped, but...