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Updated: May 16, 2025
But, unknown and unproductive as it is at present, I would stake my life that New Guinea will be a great colony some day. To the west of New Guinea and to the south of the Philippines lie the Moluccas Ceram, Amboin, Ternate, Halmahera, and the rest the Spice Islands of the old-time voyagers, the scented tropic isles of which Camoens sang.
Amboin, owing to the fact that Europeans have been established there for centuries on account of its trade in spices, is characterized by a much higher degree of civilization than the rest of the Moluccas, a considerable proportion of its inhabitants professing to be Christians.
As to the tree itself, it does no manner of injury to those around it. I have sat under its shade, and seen birds alight upon its branches; and as to the story of grass not growing beneath it, everyone who has been in a forest must know that grass is not found in such situations." The information given by Rumphius upon the subject of the Ipo or Upas, in his Herb. Amboin.
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