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He sailed o'er the weltery watery miles / For a tabular year-and-a-day, / To the kindless, kinkable Cannibal Isles / He sailed and he sailed away! / He captured a loon in a wild lagoon, / And a yak that weeps and smiles, / And a bustard-bird, and a blue baboon, / In the kindless Cannibal Isles / And wilds / Of the kinkable Cannibal Isles.
He swiped in bats with his butterfly-net, / In the kinkable Cannibal Isles, / And got short-waisted and over-het / In the haunts of the crocodiles; / And nine or ten little Pygmy Men / Of the quaintest shapes and styles / He shipped back home to his old Aunt Jenn, / From the kindless Cannibal Isles / And wilds / Of the kinkable Cannibal Isles.