Before it is quite dry, it is ornamented by lines and flowers drawn with the knife.

Finally, they break the clay form, and extract it from the mouth; and there remains the India-rubber bottle of commerce, soft and flexible.

Now, this is my plan for shoemaking; we will fill a stocking with sand, cover it with repeated layers of the gum till it is of the proper thickness; then empty out the sand, and, if I do not deceive myself, we shall have perfect boots or shoes." Comfortable in the hope of new boots, we advanced through an interminable forest of various trees.

The monkeys on the cocoa-nut trees furnished us with pleasant refreshment, and a small store of nuts besides.

Among these trees I saw some lower bushes, whose leaves were covered with a white dust.