"I carry the box wrapped in oil-skin.

For if anything happen to _them,_ Heaven help us." He crossed the prostrate palm-tree, and dived into the wood.

It was a large beautiful wood, and, except at the western edge, the trees were all of the palm-tree genus, but contained several species, including the cocoanut tree.

The turf ran under these trees for about forty yards and then died gradually away under the same thick shade which destroyed all other vegetation in this wood, and made it so easy to see and travel.
He gathered a few cocoanuts that had burst out of their ripe pods and fallen to the ground; and ran on till he reached a belt of trees and shrubs, that bounded the palm forest.

Here his progress was no longer easy.