text:  But here in this tropical clime where the heavens are of so deep a blue and the leaves of so bright a green where the imagination is worked upon by Oriental scenery and magnificence and the very air one breathes is laden with perfumes from the flower-fields and spice-groves of Araby the Blest here is the land of fiction and reverie and here I at times think that my new and most agreeable friend has laid me under a spell equally pleasant and potent in its effects--a spell from which I have neither wish nor ability to emancipate myself