The moon would not rise till later, but the night azure of the sky was unclouded, and all the constellations of the tropic belt were glittering in its peaceful depths.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
This took us through the cantonments and past officers' houses on the low ground, amongst barracks, and soldiers in khaki and rolled up shirt sleeves, smoking their pipes under palms and tropic trees; with the lap of Indian Ocean on the shore to the west, and Bombay on the left and east.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Now Kaffreland has very nearly a latitude of its own; inhabited lands similarly related to the southern tropic being found in South America and Australia only.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham