This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877* Excerpt: ...firm, when cool, was thrown into a clean flask, and when thoroughly dried in the sun, and quite hard, was cut into strips and laid by for use. By this process we obtained a supply of really useful glue, which I hoped, when clarified, would not only serve to stick articles together firmly, but also to form a semi-transparent substance, to use for window-panes instead of glass. These undertakings being accomplished, I was able to examine my wife's kitchen garden at Zeltheim. It appeared in a most flourishing condition, and likely to supply us with vegetables of all kinds, and of most excellent flavour, with very little trouble. It was also agreeable to discover that the plants in this climate had no particular or fixed period of the year for becoming ripe, but that, during the whole summer, peas, beans, and other agreeable vegetables continued to grow and ripen. The moisture caused by the heavy rains had no doubt produced this result, as well as the supply of water which had been brought from the Jackal River by our sago palm-tree pipes. For this little trouble, therefore, we had been richly repaid. Besides kitchen vegetables of all kinds, our garden contained cucumbers, gherkins, melons, as well as a quantity of Indian com or maize, in great abundance. At a little distance from the garden was a sugar-cane plantation in a flourishing condition; and the anana-roots we had brought from the mountain ridge, and transplanted in good soil close by, promised to provide us in the future with a splendid store of this incomparable fruit. The universal success of the plants near Zeltheim filled me with a pleasing hope that another experiment we had made at Falcon's Nest would be equally successful, and one morning we started, full of spirits, from Zeltheim, to visit th...