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"Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower; hangs the heavy-fruited tree: / Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." / Locksley Hall.
FEW travellers penetrate to the Andamans, unless it be an enthusiastic astronomer to witness a rare comet, or an enterprising professor, who happens to be fired with a desire to study the language and the skulls of the aborigines.