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to Palestine, taking with him a draftsman who was to sketch for him the 

 plants which grow in the Levant. But as the drawings which he brought 

 back were not accompanied by any text description, a Mayoiice doctor, one 



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Fig. 89. Sheep-shearing. Miniature from the "Three Ages of Han," unpublished Poem 

 attributed to Estienne Porchier. Manuscript of the latter part of the Fifteenth Century. 

 In the Library of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. 



John de Cuba, was intrusted with writing the text after the botanical works 

 of the Arabs ; and in this way were perpetuated, at great cost, the ancient 



