The casuarina tree [antikvár]

The CASUARINA TREE 0) the Casuarina Tree they say that ij you take in a boat with you a piece oj it, be it ever so small, contrary winds will arise to impede your journey or storms to imperil your lije. They say also th^ ij you stand in its shadow hy the light oj the jull moon you will hear, whispered mysteriously in its dark ramage, the secrets oj the juture. These jacts have never been disputed; but they say also that when in the wide estuaries the mangrove has in due time reclaimed the swampy land jrom the water the Casuarina tree plants itselj and in its turn settles, solidijies, and jertilises the soil till it is ripe jor a more varied and luxuriant growth; and then, having done its work, dies down bejore the ruthless encroachment oj the myriad denizens oj the jungle. It occurred to me that The Casuarina Tree would not make so had a title jor a collection oj stories about the English people who live in the' Malay Peninsula and in Borneo; jor I jancied that they, coming ajter the pioneers who had opened these lands to Western civilisation, were destined