A nest, however, of the Guacharo has been brought to England by my host since my departure; a round lump of mud, of the size and shape of a large cheese, with a shallow depression on the top, in which the eggs are laid.

A list of the seeds found in the stomachs of Guacharos by my friend Mr.Prestoe of the Botanical Gardens, Port of Spain, will be found in an Appendix.
We rowed away, toward our island paradise.

But instead of going straight home, we turned into a deep cove called Ance Maurice--all coves in the French islands are called Ances--where was something to be seen, and not to be forgotten again.

We grated in, over a shallow bottom of pebbles interspersed with gray lumps of coral pulp, and of Botrylli, azure, crimson, and all the hues of the flower-garden; and landed on the bank of a mangrove swamp, bored everywhere with the holes of land-crabs.

One glance showed how these swamps are formed: by that want of tide which is the curse of the West Indies.
At every valley mouth the beating of the waves tends all the year round to throw up a bank of sand and shingle, damming the land-water back to form a lagoon.