We then made a small raft of the soft pith of the plantain-tree, tied the duck to the raft and committed it to the stream.

The grass was too green in their yards, and the thick, matted plantain-leaves grew on both edges of the sodden sidewalk.

But there were bits of pig-skin stewed in oil; bean-cakes; steaming buns of wheat-flour, stuffed with dice of fat pork and lumps of sugar; three-cornered rice puddings, no-me boiled in plantain-leaf wrappers; with the last of the whiskey, in green cups.

No more must we sleep under plantain shade, Which neither heat could pierce, nor cold invade; Where bounteous nature never feels decay, And opening buds drive falling fruits away.

At full speed they swept through a gap in the hedge, and rushed into the plantain-grove before the enemy had time to reload.

The coco-palm was introduced by Diego Lorenzo, a canon in the Cape de Verde Islands, who also brought the first guinea-fowls; and, possibly, the plantain species known in this island under the name of "guinéo" came from the same part of the world.

In an instant he tore off some plantain-branches, fastened them together with long, tough grass, laid a few leaves upon them, launched them in the water, and then told me to take possession of this apology for a boat.

Various drinks, which the little natives cried about in a squeaking voice, enticed the unwary, in the form of plantain wine, "pombe," a liquor in great demand, "malofou," sweet beer, made from the fruit of the banana-tree and mead, a limpid mixture of honey and water fermented with malt.

Rakes, spades, and hatchets were ranged along the walls in the most perfect order; and near those instruments of agriculture were placed the productions which were the fruits of labour: sacks of rice, sheaves of corn, and baskets of the plantain fruit.

Several articles during the past few months, copied from English pharmaceutical journals, calling attention to the styptic properties of plantain leavesPlantago majorhaving attracted my attention, I determined to try a few experiments when opportunity offered.

Why should not Plantain-meal {318a} be hereafter largely exported for the use of the English working classes?

Then, dodging out from the plantain screen, and beckoning,"All you chaps!