[…] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
Sometimes, drowning away from his own eyes all glory in his achievement, must have come memory of his mistreatment of the Pinzons, knowledge that though he had found new lands by the chances of luck and mislore he had still no notion what lands they were.
‘After us the deluge,’ was retorted with a laugh: / ‘If bread's the staff of life, they must walk without a staff.’ / ‘While I've a loaf they're welcome to my blessing and the chaff.’
The latter species was collected only once in this survey on A. flavescens but is widespread on both tropical and temperate acacias in Australia.
