We embarked on a gulf running generally from east to west, about midway between the northern tropic and the arctic circle.

ASPARAGUS.This plant belongs to the variously-featured family of the order Liliaceae, which, in the temperate regions of both hemispheres, are most abundant, and, between the tropics, gigantic in size and arborescent in form.

They are men of the moist, fertile tropics, brown of skin, and working half naked in their fields, like the peoples of Southern India and Bengal.

Cairns was tampering with a drug that is hard to give up, in absorbing the odor and color of the oriental tropics.

For he hates the sands of the desert And the slimy tropic south, Or his dreams of a northern fortune Are as ashes in his mouth.

If this were not true, the present chronicler would never be guilty of the folly of expending his time and ink upon such details as go to make up this true history; it would be lost labor, were not the flower and the blade of grass, the very thistle down upon the breeze, each and all, as wonderful as the grand forests of the splendid tropics.

They are men of the moist, fertile tropics, brown of skin, and working half naked in their fields, like the peoples of Southern India and Bengal.

(1) The politically undeveloped tropics; (2) Shipping and international trade; and (3) Small nationalities and all regions in a state of political impotence or confusion?