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CELEBES. 



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they lay drying on large trays round the houses. The nutmeg, 

 which is a fine shrubby tree with polished dark green leaves, bears 







WATERFALL NEAR TOXDAXO. 



a yellowish, fleshy fruit not unlike a peach. When ripe it splits 

 longitudinally, disclosing the scarlet network of mace within, wliich 

 in its turn overlies an inner husk enclosino- the nutmes as it is 



