This is a still livelier picture.

There are many fields inclosed and tilled.

They are irrigated by the water from a small stream.

Upon its banks there are cocoa-trees; and out of the rich moist soil shoot up rows of the majestic plantain, whose immense yellow-green leaves, sheathing the stem and then drooping gracefully over, render it one of the most ornamental productions of the tropics, as its clustering legumes of farinaceous fruit make it one of the most useful.

Low walls, white or gaily painted, appear over the fields, and a handsome spire rises above the walls.