Excerpt from The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, 1889, Vol. 5 Landing at the chief port, Santa Isabel, the visitor is struck by the absence of beasts of burden and vehicles. The streets are grown over with grass. There are a few half-wild bullocks careering in the bush near the town, and a few stray pigs may be seen; but horses and cattle cannot be kept in vigorous health. In the forest are monkeys, squirrels, antelopes, porcu pines, snakes of every description (which by their abundanceamply compensate for the absence of beasts of rey), and birds of gorgeous plums e. The sea teams with sh, and at the season of the year t e whales visit the coasts, also turtles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.