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Before the cheniere all the shell-beach slope was piled with wreck—uptorn trees with the foliage still fresh upon them, splintered timbers of mysterious origin, and logs in multitude, scarred with gashes of the axe.

From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio

And his men, Miguel and Mateo, were at the other end of the cheniere.

From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio

Sometimes above a waste of wind-blown prairie-cane you see an oasis emerging,—a ridge or hillock heavily umbraged with the rounded foliage of evergreen oaks:—a cheniere.

From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio