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“See Mecom river fret Cambodia’s coast, his name by ‘Water-Captain’ men explain; in summer only when he swelleth most, he leaves his bed to flood and feed the Plain: As the frore Nyle he doth his freshets boast; his peoples hold the fond belief and vain, that pains and glories after death are ’signed to brutes and soulless beasts of basest kind.