eautiful. With what joy did we round the old Needles, and run
past Hurst Castle; and with what shivering, too. For the wind,
though dead south, came to us as a continental wind, harsh and keen
from off the frozen land of France, and chilled us to the very
marrow all the way up to Southampton.

But there were warm hearts and kind faces waiting us on the quay,
and good news too. The gentlemen at the Custom-house courteously
declined the least inspection of our luggage; and we were at once
away in the train home. At first, I must confess, an English winter
was a change for the worse. Fine old oaks and beeches looked to us,
fresh from ceibas and balatas, like leafless brooms stuck into the
ground by their handles; while the want of light was for some days
painful and depressing But we had done it; and within the three
months, as we promised. As the king in the old play says, 'What has
been, has been, and I've had my hour.' At last we had seen it; and
we could not unsee it. We could not not have been in the Tropics.

Footnotes:

{4} Raleigh's Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of
Azores.

{8} Chiroteuthi and Onychoteuthi.

{15a} Cocoloba uvifera.

{15b} Plumieria.

{25a} Anona squamosa.

{25b} A. muricata.

{25c} A. chierimolia.

{25d} A. reticulata.

{26a} Persea gratissima.

{26b} Dioscorea.

{26c} Colocasia esculcuta.

{27a} Dr. Davy's West Indies.

{27b} An account of the Souffriere of Montserrat is given by Dr.
Nugent, Geological Society's Transactions, vol. i., 1811.

{28} For what is known of these, consult Dr. Nugent's 'Memoir on
the Geology of Antigua,' Transactions of Geological Society, vol.
v., 1821. See also Humboldt, Personal Narrative, book v. cap. 14.

{33} Acrocomia.

{36} Naval Chronicles, vol. xii. p. 206.

{38} Craspedocephalus lanceolatus.

{40} Coluber variabilis.

{43a} Breen's St. Lucia, p. 295.

{43b} Personal Narrative, book v. cap. 14.

{44} Dr. Davy.

{52a} Ipomaea Horsfallii.

{52b} Spondias lutea.

{58} Desmoncus.

{65} M. Joseph, History of Trinidad, from which most of these facts
are taken.

{74} Clitoria Ternatea; which should be in all our hothouses.

{77} Peperomia.

{78a} Sabal.

{78b} Poinziana.

{78c} Pandanus.

{78d} Tecoma (serratifolia?)

{78e} Panicum jumentorum.

{79a} Cecropia.

{79b} Andira inermis.

{79c} Acrocomia sclerocarpa.

{79d} Eriodend