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“See Banda’s Islets, which enamelled glow various painted by the rosy fruits;

  • variegate birds, that flit from bough to bough, take tithe and tribute of the greeny nuts:

See Borneo’s sea-girt shore where ever flow the perfumed liquor’s thick and curded gouts, the tears of forest-trees men ‘Camphor’ clepe, wherefore that Island crop of Fame shall reap.

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