“Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.

It wasn't out of any houndswell from hell that brought her out on the sulphurous fartful excuse-mes and the grosh lines of the mad hatter mud crabs of the mangrove groozes.

Termites are herbivores and detritivores variously involved in the comminution and decomposition of vegetable matter, through most of the warm temperate and tropical zones.

When deprived of light, says Dr. Irvine, all plants nearly agree in the qualities of their juices. The most pungent vegetables then grow insipid; the highest flavoured, inodorous; and those of the most variegated colours are of a uniform whiteness. … The results of analysis perfectly accord with these observations; for etiolated plants are found to yield more saccharine matter, carbonic acid and water, and less inflammable matter than those which are green.