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Ul condug WE Of each 4 rivulet, as deferibed by the old Prieſt; that it was of a lelinouents middling ſize; that five or ſix young trees of the ſame kind ſtood cloſe by itz but that no other fhrub or plant aii could be ſeen near itz and that the Emu was of a "is i04 browniſh ſand, full of ſtones, almoſt(MBE ee for travelling, and covered with dead bodies. After many 5er converſations with the old Malayan prieſt, 1 queſtioned E. öh about the fir BDK and aſked his opinion of Ee Dis dangerous tree; upon which he gave me the follow- DE ing anſwer ve cc We are told in our new Alcoran, that, above an hun- p ij<: dred years ago, the country around the tree was inha- “ ir<< bited by a people rongly addicted to the ſins of Sodom 8<< and Gomorrah; when the great prophet Mahomet de- 45< termined not to ſuffer them to lead ſuch deteflable lives 499<< any longer, he applied to God to puniſh trhem: upon << which God cauſed this tree to grow out of the earth, HE cc which deſtroyed them all, and rendered the country for lome<« ever uninhabitable." of this Such was the Malayan opinion. 1 ſhall not attempt a deli| comment; but muſt obſerve, that all trhe Malayans con- rocure| ſider this tree as an holy inſtrument of the great prophet oncol to puniſh the ſins of mankind; and, therefore, to die of vr| the poiſon of the Upas 18 generally conſidered among der of| them as an honourable death. For that reaſon 1 allo ob-

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