Chapter IX
The Forest
When we all met next morning, again under the bamboo grove, the good Padre said:
“If you were lost in your woods at home, you would soon wander and die; but if you were lost here, you could live for years.”
“Then let us go into such a forest of Eden,” I replied, and held out my hands to Fil and Filippa.
Away we went down the white shell road across the canal; and soon we were lost among the many trees, palms, and vines.
The Padre pointed to the coconut tree and the nipa palm, and said: “As we already have told you, they would afford you a house, food, drink, light, and soap.”
“What is this great hard tree?” I inquired.