The luxuriant vegetation of Krakatoa was totally destroyed by the eruption in 1883, not a living gem being left. Three years later the island was visited by Dr M. •Troub, who now reports haying found six species of microscopic algae, which epatpd tho rock and seemed to have formed the soil on which .cloven species of ferns hkd taken root, A common grass of Java was growing, and there were quite a number of such species of flowering plants as first appear on coral islands. Seeds or fruit of several coral island trees were found on the shore. Krakatoa is ten miles from the Island of Sibesio, containing the nearest terrestrial vegetation, twenty miles from Sumatra, twenty-oue from Java,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4983, 16 April 1889, Page 2
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119Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 South Canterbury Times, Issue 4983, 16 April 1889, Page 2
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