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Excerpt from Half Round the World, or Among the Uncivilized The intelligent commander Of the steamer is not only an accomplished seaman and navigator, but he is an educator, with very reasonable and sensible views on the subject. He is practical as well as scientific; and in Burma, the Malay Peninsula, the island of Sumatra, and elsewhere, the various spices are explained while the audience are looking at the trees or plants which produce them. They visit a nutmeg plantation; and some of them who had used nutmegs and mace all their lives learned more about: these spices than they had ever known before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.