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There farther forwards shall ye make, 1 ween, 

 Malaca's market grand and opulent, 

 whither each Province of the long seaboard 

 shall send of merchantry rich varied hoard. 



But on her Lands-end throned see Cingapur, 



where the wide sea-road shrinks to narrow way : 

 Thence curves the coast to face the Cynosure, 

 and lastly trends Auroraward its lay : 

 See Pam, Patane, and in length obscure, 

 Siam, that ruleth all with royal sway ; 

 behold Menam, who rolls his lordly tide 

 from source Chiamai called, Lake long and wide. 



Thou see'st in spaces of such vast extent 

 nations of thousand names and yet unnamed ; 

 LcLos in land and people prepotent 

 Avas and Bramas for vast ranges famed. 

 See how in distant wilds and wolds lie pent 

 the self-styled Gueons, salvage folk untamed; 

 Alan's flesh they eat : their own they paint and sear, 

 branding with burning iron, — usage fere ! 



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. 



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 TARVM ITEM EX INDIA | Epistolarum eo- 

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 LOIOLAE VITA POSTREMO | recognita. 

 Et in Opera singula copiosus Index, j FLOREN- 

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