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** Of Tornate and Tidore, whence merchanta bring 



*' Their spicy drugs; they on the trading flood < 



•• Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape 



** Ply sttmmingly f nightly tow'rd the pole."* 



Milton's stemmingly sounds like our steamers' motion — stemmingly, 

 mdeed ! cutting the wave and the tempest in tvao ! 



