Show whistling trees among the curiosities of treo tree life is tile the or whistling tree of nubia when the winds blow over this tree it gives out sounds playing away to the wilderness for hours at a time strange weird melodies it to la the spirit of tho the dead singing among the branches the natives say hut but the white man mail says that the sounds are due to a myriad of small holes which an insect bores in the spines of the branches the weeping tree of the canary la is lands is another arboreal freak this tree in the driest weather veather will rain down showers from 1 its ts leaves and the natives gather up tho the water from the pool formed tit at the foot of the trunk and find it pure and fresh the tree exudes the water from innumerable pores situated at the base of the leaves |