Cane ocean-isles, Isles which on Britain for their all depend
A rather outright declaration of the metropole's reliance on its colonies.
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- Nov 2021
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digital-grainger.github.io digital-grainger.github.io
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conch602 or bell resounds
As Grainger's footnote explains, those plantations that did not have bells used conch shells as sounding devices. It's interesting how objects found in nature had to suffice when manufactured goods (like bells) were unavailable. Given the reliance on enslaved indigenous and African labor in the practices of fishing and aquatic harvesting, enslaved labor essentially produced the item (conch shell) that further drives and facilitates enslaved labor on the plantation.
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Perhaps thy Negroe, in his native land, Possest large fertile plains, and slaves, and herds:
Among several early Caribbean texts, there seems to be a fascination with what kind of lives enslaved Africans led in their homelands before enslavement--especially if they held positions of power. Oroonoko and Obi, or the History of Three-Fingered Jack come to mind (though Earle's texts would be published after Grainger's). Oronooko was a prince, and the Jack's grandfather was a high-ranking member in his society.
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from what coast soe’er they sail
I wonder how the focus on the word "coast" could, in a sense, serve to reduce Africa to a series of European coastal outposts that aided trade and slavery.
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Sylvan bard
The footnote explains that "Sylvan bard" means a poet of the wilderness and refers to Grainger. It's interesting that he would consider himself of the wilderness, since plantations can certainly be seen as enclosed nature, separated as a more known and cultivated space in comparison to true "wilderness."
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- Jun 2018
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 7111
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West-Indies
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signs that precede a hurricane
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Columbus
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astral halos
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wind
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trees
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shrubs
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rain
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lightning
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thunder
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Each wind appeas’d
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 706
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hurricane-season
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storm
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wind
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Eurus
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birds
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palm-tree
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 697
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Scorpion
To consider if we add astrology/astronomy
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Libra
If we choose to add an astrology/astronomy tag
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Hurricane
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Ætna
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AEtna
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lightning
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hurricane
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 6812
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China
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Cathäy
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storm
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Cathäy
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St. Christopher
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thunders
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storm
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hoe uproot
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climes
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mining swarms
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broad roots
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pest
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 6710
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trade-winds
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West-wind
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Homer
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The East is the centre of the trade-wind in the West-Indies
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Eurus
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slaves
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Auster
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Rhea
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Eurus reigns vicegerent of the sky
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Eurus
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 6613
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apple-tree
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jessamine
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Jamaica plumb-tree
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Jamaica
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plumb-tree
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ants’ republic
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bugs confederate
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Foe to the bowels
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gold fruit
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plumb-tree
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Virgin-isles
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Bugs of uncommon shape
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reptile-life
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 6512
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wood-nymphs
Not sure what to tag
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well-rotted manure
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Gaudet irriguis, et toto anno bibere amat.
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Pliny the Elder
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rainy season
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infant-throng
Not sure what to label, but I feel it's important
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well-manur’d
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hop-grounds
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Boreas
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Eurus
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Kent
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rattling shower
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 6416
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Sloane
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Opuntia maxima, folio oblongo, majore, spinulis obtusis, mollibus et innocentibus obsito, flore, striis rubris variegato
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seed, or vegetable production
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Europe
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Sir Hans Sloane’s Natural History of Jamaica
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Sir Hans Sloane
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insect
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cochinille
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rain
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Augaean
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Neptune
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pest
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nectar
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Gaul
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insects
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Indian fig
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 637
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cochinille
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reptile
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Afric
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locust-breed
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distant clime
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insect-tribe
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Volga
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 6212
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rhubarb
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Denum Dei
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root
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antidotes
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root
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wild liquorice
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antidoes
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whose taste the palate charms
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poison’d fish
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Halcyons
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poisonous drugs
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Maro
Not sure if this is a person or a place
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 6127
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apple
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apple
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Virgil
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King of Pontus
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antidote
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Pliny
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Mithridates king of Pontus
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Mithridatium
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Mimosa
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Alsine
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South-America
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Spaniards
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La Donzella, or the Maiden
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Vergonzoza, the Bashful
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It is really of use against fish-poison
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remarkable qualities against poisonous bites
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Snakeweed
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Erudos Cobres
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Spaniards
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Cajacia
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Caribbees
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chickweed
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chickweed
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apple
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Median climes
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Pontus’ King
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chickweed
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 6022
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singing brown Setae
Not sure what to tag this
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English field-pea
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purgative
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beans
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seeds
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vermifuge
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melasses
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Negroes
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cow-itch
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cow-itch
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vermifuge
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ipecacuan
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dysenteric complaints
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emetic
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plant
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seeds
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yellow thistle
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worms
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knotted grass
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From foul pollution, and unseemly rot
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mountain-dove
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yellow thistle
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 5914
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vermin
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Sugar-Islands
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rats
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Mungoes
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East-India
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Dr. Lewis
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Newman’s Chemistry
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article Solanum
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weeds
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manure
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weeds
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soil
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weeds
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flour
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 5815
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food
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physician
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Jesuit
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pulmonic disorders
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Cane-rats
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Pere Labat
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Negroes
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horses
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mules
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vermin-breed
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Misnian arsenic
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cassada
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Britons
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Gallia’s sons
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roasted crabs
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ktakahata.github.io ktakahata.github.iopage 5711
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Guayaquil
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Ibbos
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Ulloa
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alligators
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roots
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Osyters
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marshy soils
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Rizophora
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Ibbos
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alligators
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gallinazo
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