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X said that I would write to yen 
about the coconut booties in Malacca® and I do no 
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the dhifriteff of >*a? acca of both the coconut and the 
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kabcmy p nlns, and had no difficulty in finding the 
the black boot to - Gryctod rhinoceros* Kona 
’50re / full yre?m; and this confirm? ny idea that 
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the pronounced seasons ef Malacca Hake the beetle 
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periodic! . which it Is not in Singapore* X found 
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ferubs for instance just behind the® Malacca Rout House* 
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on the way to Sanjens Klins* in Al^gr ^ajah, and 
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this visits 
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pains in that parti k kabony pain is «uitc as seed 
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a brredin,: pin ;e for the black beetle as the 
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coconut* 
X would surest that the Inspector under the 
act should bo nade to spend sene laborious da v s (new 
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that Hari Hay a has passed) between Alor *ajah and 
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Hanpin, and especially that he should yet the dead 
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coconut trees in ffanpin vil?aye removed. 
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