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islands, and largely propagated there. As the fruit will keep some time after being gathered,
we might then be able to obtain this tropical luxury in Covent Garden Market.
Although the few months I at various times spent in Amboyna were not altogether very
profitable to me in the way of collections, yet it will always remain as a bright spot in the re-
view of my Eastern travels, since it was there that I first made the acquaintance of those
glorious birds and insects, which render the Moluccas classic ground in the eyes of the nat-
uralist, and characterise its fauna as one of the most remarkable and beautiful upon the
globe. On the 20th of February I finally quitted Amboyna for Ceram and Waigiou, leaving
Charles Allen to go by a Government boat to Wahai on the north coast of Ceram, and thence
to the unexplored island of Mysol.
