~The Song of the Plantain-Gatherers~ We gather and gather the plantains; Come gather them anyhow.

We were offered plantains, milk, and chupatties, and an old patriarch came out leaning on his staff, to revile and abuse the tigress.

I think I went in swimming too soon after eating those plantains," for they had been given some of the yellow bananas by a native when they stopped at his hut for some water.

One of the sailors exchanged a plantain for a dog, so it was concluded the fruit was unknown.

They unsaddled and fed their animals in the yard, and afterward set about frying plantains and fresh stolen pork for supper.

So he thought; and in his hammock Gnawed his junk of sugar-cane, Toasted plantains at the fire-stick, Gnawed, and dozed, and gnawed again.

He put down a number of articles on his clothwhich was villainously tattered and greasyan unripe plantain, a handful of rice, of parched peas, a thigh bone, two wooden cups, some balls, &c., &c.; all of which he kept constantly lifting and moving about, keeping up the passes and muttering all the time.

Two priests came forward to Otoo, one placing a young plantain tree in front of him, and the other touching his foot with a bunch of red feathers, and then rejoining the others, who immediately went off to a smaller Morai near, and, seating themselves facing the sea, one commenced reciting a long prayer, occasionally sending one of his attendants to place a young plantain on the body.

This prayer being ended, the priests returned to the beach, and more prayers were said, the plantains being moved, one by one, from the body and placed in front of the priests.

Next morning, whilst we were roasting green plantains in the fire for breakfast, a man dressed in General Walker's blue-shirt-and-cotton-breeches uniform came upon us suddenly from out of the woods beyond the stream.

{335o} '"Sent rich plantains, {336a} food of angels; Rich ananas, {336b} food of kings; Grudged you none of all my treasures: Save these lovely useless things.

Backing out into mid-stream brought them near an anchored steamer lately razeed and now being fitted for a cloud of canvas on three lofty masts instead of the two small sticks she had been content with while she brought plantains, guava jelly, coffee, and cigars from Havana.

Here Krishna has conjured up a golden circular terrace ornamented with pearls and diamonds and cooled by sprouting plantains.

The Indians called the low plantain "the white man's footstep"; and these shy creatures gradually disappear, the moment the red man gets beyond their hearing.

Then they agreed that they were all three fools and had better divide the plantains equally among them and go home; and that is what they did.