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[billycw]

America's Canine Cosmonaut continued...

Parke Davis & Co scientist with test rats


In the American Journal of Pharmacy , Volume 80 published months later in 1908, the researchers added these two conclusions...

Concluding first, Americans can grow cannabis just as good as India...

And second, the first proper dose for cannabis on canines at .o1mg per kilo...


the American Journal of Pharmacy , Volume 80 - 1908

“Advantages of Cannabis Sativa, when grown in the United States (Cannabis Americana) under careful precautions, is found to be fully as active as the best imported Indian-grown Cannabis Sativa, as shown by laboratory and clinical tests."

-Parke Davis & Co 1910 pamphlet Cannabis Americana

Lyudmila Radkevich, associate researcher at the Institute for Aviation and Space Medicine, checks Chernushka's weight in the laboratory in 1958


During the Cannabis Americana study, researchers also tried to find the fatal dose for Cannabis...

For this attempt at death the researchers loaded a huge 60cc (2oz) syringe full of pure cannabis tincture and injected it into the jugular of a small dog...

Expecting a quick death, the researchers were amazed... Shockingly the dog not only lived, but showed no lasting affects from the extreme dose...


“At the beginning of our observations careful search of the literature on the subject was made to determine the toxicity of the hemp. Not a single case of fatal poisoning have we been able to find reported, although often alarming symptoms may occur. A dog weighing 25 pounds received an injection of two ounces of an active U.S.P. fluid extract in the jugular vein with the expectation that it would certainly be sufficient to produce death. To our surprise, the animal, after being unconscious for about a day and a half, recovered completely. This dog received not alone the active constituents of the drug but also the amount of alcohol contained in the fluid extract. Another dog received about 7 grammes of Solid Extract Cannabis with the same result. We have never been able to give an animal a sufficient quantity of a U.S. P. or other preparation of the Cannabis (Indica or Americana) to produce death.”

-from A Pharmacological study of Cannabis Americana (Cannabis Sativa) 1907

A man in white laboratory clothing injecting toxin into a horse. At Parke Davis Research laboratory, 1943



Sitting on Detroit's famed Riverwalk sits a little hidden piece of American hash history...

Still standing amongst the iconic walk, looms the Parke Davis & Co Research Laboratory building that was used for testing Cannabis.

Today this historic building is actually a Hotel! At 'Roberts Riverwalk Hotel Detroit', you can literally sleep in hash history!

Remember to ask for the room where scientist shot 60cc of pure cannabis tincture in the jugular of America's Canine Cosmonaut.

Roberts Riverwalk Hotel Detroit, Michigan

 

[geneva_sativa]

Freaking awesome, Billy !!!

Love the multiple emphasis in the report, that " Experience is necessary on the part of the observer. . . "

 

[billycw]

Truck loaded with hemp stalks, 1940's

 

[billycw]

'Dope suspect', 1951

Dope suspect, Rudy Lara - 25 years (suspect); officer Steve Broadhurst; officer Rocky Lucarelli find bags of marijuana hidden in car seats. Los Angeles, California 8/20/1951

 

[billycw]

'Los charros contrabandistas'

'The Cowboy Smugglers', 1890 dice game

Gameboard for dice game of the 'Cowboy Smugglers' shows Mexican cowboys in charro outfits on horseback, lassoing the 64 spaces on the board. The accompanying text, upper right, provides the rules for the game.

 

[billycw]

"One Ton Of Hashish Capture In Frejus, France" July 1, 1977

 

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[billycw]

"So high, the highest Hemp"

-'Big Hemp' Slavic Easter song

Easters Pushes Hemp, Hemp Swings Back...

Across the world families wake up Easter morning to hunt for eggs. A huge meal to follow, sliding very smoothly into a nice food coma.

Moving outside into the yard to enjoy the nice spring weather, many families unknowingly include one of humanities Hemp Traditions...

The swing...

Arthur Thiele Bunny Rabbits KANINCHEN the Swing. 1985 ("Lieldienas”- Latvian Easter)



The act of pushing your children on the swing might seem uneventful on any other day, but on Easter its done for Hemp...

That's right, the innocence of the ol' swing hanging in the big tree in the family's yard has its traditions in hemp folklore... Besides the obvious hemp rope...

Dating back to at least the Pagan festival of Eastra, celebrating the goddess of spring, all across Europe huge swing sets would be assembled by farmers.

The swings were constructed with one purpose in mind, to make hemp grow...

Lieldienas (Easter) festival in Latvia


The superstition goes, that the higher you swing, the higher your hemp will grow...

Farmers would vie for the largest swings in hopes for the highest hemp in the land.

Special folk songs called 'sūpuoklinė', which imitate the actual swinging in its layering, are sung by onlookers while swinging for the sky.

Many of these Easter songs included the early purpose of the holiday, Hemp...


Kanapė kanapelė (Cannabis Cannabis)
Lithuanian sūpuoklinė Folk Song
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Translation of the lyrics to Kanapė kanapelė:

"I've sown hemp faraway by the seashore
I've rooted the hemp out faraway by the seashore
I've tied the hemp faraway by the seashore
I've soaked the hemp faraway by the seashore
I've pulled the hemp out faraway by the seashore
I've spread the hemp out faraway by the seashore
I've trampled the hemp faraway by the seashore
I've combed the hemp faraway by the seashore
I've spun the hemp faraway by the seashore
I've woven the hemp faraway by the seashore
I've worn the hemp faraway by the seashore
REFRAIN: hemp, dear little hemp"

Easter Festival Lithuania


The new Easter swing sets were kept in the yard for 1 week. On the 7th day they were set on fire and burned to the ground. Midevil times added a reason, so witches couldn't swing on them.

The ashes were possibly added as amendments in the hemp fields. So it begins as does it ends...



Why Aren't You Showing Green, Little Hemp?
By Young Village girls in the Seversky Region/Lithuanian sūpuoklinė Folk Song

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[billycw]

Sgt. John Jensen of the Salt Lake Police Department, displays marijuana in its various forms and paraphenalia connected with the drug. Jean Dean of the Ladies Petroleum Club looks on. Salt Lake City, Utah 1971

 

[billycw]

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

-Henry David Thoreau

Cross section of a hemp leaf showing a small vein and the mesophyll tissue. Photo taken with a light microscope and magnified 150 times. University of California, Santa Barbara - November 26, 1953

Cross section of a hemp leaf showing the midvein. Photo taken with a light microscope magnified 130 times. University of California, Santa Barbara - November 26, 1953

 

[billycw]

Marihuana Smokers Arrested

Even before cannabis became illegal under a local El Paso city ordinance in 1914, El Paso police found a way to enforce the imaginary...

My favorite form of cannabis measurement... The "Bucket"


El Paso Morning Times, November 7, 1913

 

[billycw]

'Street smokers', India 1922

 

[billycw]

"Two African American men wearing overalls cut and bundle hemp, while a man in a suit looks on" Mercer County (Ky.) 1900-1904

 

[billycw]

"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."

-Luther Burbank

'view from the top' Botany class at Gwinn's Bluff, Minnesota, 5/16/37

 

[Jellyfish]

We had jokers exactly like this in our REQUIRED Drug and Alcohol Awareness class. That's where I first found out about weed, sitting in the next-to-back row, wondering what the people behind me were all laughing about! I became aware of Drugs, for sure. Thanks for turning me on, American Educational System!

 

[billycw]

We had jokers exactly like this in our REQUIRED Drug and Alcohol Awareness class. That's where I first found out about weed, sitting in the next-to-back row, wondering what the people behind me were all laughing about! I became aware of Drugs, for sure. Thanks for turning me on, American Educational System!

I remember the day the D.A.R.E car rolled into my Elementary school. All morning long our teachers were talking about drugs and the dangers associated. The cops showed up with the car outside and gave a little speech to everyone. Then back to the classrooms to talk more intimately with the teacher. Next the policeman came to each class briefly to give another little speal. Pamphlets, stickers, dodads the whole nine.

The conversation the teacher and policeman gave to the class after is what I'll never forget... I remember her telling us it was OK to tell on your parents if they used drugs. How you would be helping them because they were sick and needed help to save their lives... Even with a clean living family, I'll never forget that feeling of pressure... I'll never forgive those lies...

Some of the 29 students in a 6th grade class react to a role playing session of a D.A.R.E. program conducted by LAPD officer Gary Guevara. Photograph dated September 15, 1988.

 

[billycw]

Japanese smokers drawing, date unknown

 

[billycw]

Here is Labor, Profit, Clothing, Pleasure, Food, Navigation: Divinity, Poetry, the liberal Arts, Arm's, Virtues defense, Vices offense, a true mans protection, a Thief's execution. Here is mirth and matter all beaten out of this small Seed.

-John Taylor

John Taylor


The Water Poet Gushes

In the early 1600's a waterman working the Thames river in England wrote an ode. A whole book devoted to one perfect speck. The Hemp Seed...

John Taylor worked as a water taxi man by trade. I'm sure these trips were pure entertainment for all aboard spewing classics such as "Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel."

He would become known as 'The Water Poet', as much for his love for the water as his fluid rhymes.

In 1620 he would release what he called his "Masterpiece". With such passion he would write about just one thing, 'The Hemp Seed'...

Describing all the uses from feed, fuel, cloth, shelter, weapon, judge, and the list goes on... he includes one important use, Medicine...

"Some call it Neck-weed, for it hath a trick
To cure the neck that's troubled with the crick.
For my part all's one, call it what you please,
It is sovereign against each Common-wealth disease,"

-John Taylor, 1620


He even breaks down the benefits to the soil on which hemp is planted!

"Moreover, Hempseed hath this virtue rare
In making bad ground good, good corn to bare,
It fats the earth, and makes it to excel
No dung, or marl, or muck can do it so well:
For in that Land which bares this happy seed
In three years after it no dung will need,"

-John Taylor, 1620


Also contained in this ode for hemp seed is a story of a journey. Not just any journey but a epic quest with a Cheech and Chong like hempen boat!

Building a boat completely of Hemp Paper, he sailed his hempen paper boat from London to Queenborough using only 'two stockfish tied to canes for oars'...

I can't even make stuff like this up...

Bottom line, you want to read this, you should read this, you all need to read this...

I did my best at translating the old english for you...


'The Praise of Hemp-seed'

By John Taylor aka 'The Water Poet'

Published 1620

Binding

inside lining

Title sheet


'THE PRAISE OF HEMP-SEED'

With

The Voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the Writer hereof, in a
Boat of brown-Paper, from London to Queenborough in Kent.

As also, a Farewell to the matchless deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat.

Concluding with the commendations of the famous River of Thames.

By John Taylor.

The Contents of the Book are in the next leaf before the Preamble.


The Profits arising by Hemp-seed are}

} Clothing, Food, Fishing, Shipping, Pleasure, Profit, Justice, Whipping.



Printed at London for H. Gasson, and are to be sold at Christ Church Gate 1610

 

[billycw]

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL, Paternes and Patrons of honest endeavors, Sir Thomas Hovvet,and Sir Robert Wiseman Knights: And to the worthy
Gentleman, Mr. John Wiseman, Health, Mirth, and Happiness, be ever attendants.


NOBLE SIRS:

I Could have soiled a greater volume then this with a deal of empty and trivial stuff: as puling Sonnets, whining Elegies, the dog-tricks of Love, toy's to mock Apes, and transform men into Asses. Which kind of writing is like a man in Authority, ancient in years, reverend in Beard, with a promising out-side of Wisdom and Gravity, yet in the expected performances of his profound understanding, his capacity speaks nothing but Mittimus. But here your Worships shall find no such stuff: for thou I have not done as I should, yet I have

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have performed as much as I could. I have not had rivers of Oil, or fountains of wine to fill this my poor cask or book: but I have (as it were) extracted oil out of steel, and wine out of dry chaff. I have here of a grain of Hemp seed made a mountain greater then the Apennines or Caucasus, and not much lesser then the whole world. Here is Labor, Profit, Clothing, Pleasure, Food, Navigation: Divinity, Poetry, the liberal Arts, Arm's, Virtues defense, Vices offense, a true mans protection, a Thief's execution. Here is mirth and matter all beaten out of this small Seed.

With all, my self for my self, and in the behalf of Mr. Roger Bird, do most humbly thank your Worships for many former undeserved courtesies and favors extended towards us, especially at our going our dangerous Voyage in the Paper boat: for which we must ever acknowledge our selves bound to your Goodness's. Which voyage I have merrily related at the end of this Pamphlet, which with the rest I have made bold to dedicate to your Worshipful and worthy Patronages, humbly desiring your pardons and acceptances, ever remaining to be commanded by you and yours in all obsequiousness.

JOHN TAYLOR.



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THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK.

1 The most part of such Authors are nominated, as have written of trivial matters.
2 The names of most of the Pagan and Heathenish Idols, that have been and are honored at this present.
3 The profit and pleasure all Countries have by Hemp-seed.
4 How it propagates the Gospel.
5 Navigation, with the Commodities it brings and carries.
6 How many Trades and Functions live by it.
7 How when it is worn to rag's, it is made into Paper.
8 How many live by it being Paper.
9 The sacred memory of Patriarchs, Prophets, Evangelists, Apostles, and Fathers.
10 The four Monarchies.

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11 The seven Wonders.
12 Philosophers, Historians, Chronographers, Poets ancient and modern, the best sort mentioned.
13 The Anatomy of a Brownist, or precise Amsterdam'd Puritan.
14 A Voyage in a Paper-boat to Queenborough.
15 The description of a Sea-storm.
16 The Names of the most famous Rivers in the World.
17 The praise of the noble River of Thames.


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A Preamble, Preatrot, Preagallop, Prearack, Preapace,
or Preface ; and profess my Masters, if your
Stomach's Serve.

Book, go thy ways, and honest mirth provoke :
And Spiteful spirits with Melancholy choke.
Book, I command thee, where dost resort,
To be the bad mens terror, good mens sport.
Near as thou canst, I pray thee do not miss,
But make them understand what Hempseed is.

Me thinks I hear some knavish foolish head,
Accuse, condemn, and judge before he read:
Saying, the fellow that the fame hath made,
Is a mechanic Waterman by trade :
And therefore it cannot worth reading be,
Being compiled by such an one as he.
Another spends his censure like Tom-ladle.
(Brings in his five eggs, four of which are idle)
Mews and makes faces, yet scarce knows whats what:
Hemp-seed (quoth he) what can be writ of that?

Thus these depraving minds their judgements scatter
Either against the Writer or the Matter.
But let them (if they please) read this Preamble,
And they will find that I have made a scramble.

 

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To shew my poor plenteous want of skill,
How Hemp-seed doth deserve, preserve, and kill.
I muse that never any excellent wit
Of this forgotten subject yet hath writ.
The Theme is rich, although esteemed mean,
Not scurrilous, profane, nor yet obscene.
And such as task may well become a quill
To blaze it, that hath all the grounds of skill.
This work were no dishonor or abuse,
To Homer, Ouid, or to Maroes Muse.
A thousand Writers for their art renowned
Have made far better things their studies ground.
That men have cause to rail against fruitless Rimes,
(Vainly compiled in past and present times,)
And say, O Hemp-seed, how art thou forgotten
By many Poets that are dead and rotten?
And yet how many will forget them still
Till they put on a Tyburne Pickadill.
Erasmus, that great Clerk of Rotterdam,
In praise of Folly many lines did frame:
The sum and pith of all his whole intents
Shows Fools are guilty, and yet Innocents.
Another, briefly, barely did relate
The naked honor of a bare bald Pate:
And for there's not a hair twixt(between) them and heaven,
The title of tall men to them is given:
And sure they put their foes in such great dread,
That none dares touch a hair upon their head.
Montgomery, a fine scholar did compile
The Cherry and the Sloe in learned style.
Homer wrote bravely of the Frog and Rat,
And Virgil versified upon a Gnat.
Ovid set forth the Art of lustful Love.
Another wrote the Treatise of the Dove.
One with the Grasshopper doth keep a rut.
Another rhymes upon a Hazel Nut.
One with a neat Sophistic Paradox
Sets forth the commendations of the Pox.



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Senior Inamorato's Muse doth sing
In honor of his Mistress Glove or Ring,
Her Mask, her Fane, her Pantofle, her Glass,
Her Any thing, can turn him to an Ass.
Pliny and Aristotle write of Bees.
Some write of Beggeries twenty four degrees.
One of the Owl did learnedly indite,
And brought the Night bird welcome to day-light.
A second did defend with tooth and nail,
The strange contentment men may find in Jail.
A third doth the third Richard much commend,
And all his bloody actions doth defend.
A fourth doth shew his wits exceeding quickness,
In praise of Tavern-healths and Drunken sickness.
A fifth doth toil his Muse quite out of breath,
Of adverse Fortune, banishment or death.
A sixth the very Firmament doth harrow,
Writes of the Parrot, Popinjay and Sparrow,
The Stork, the Cuckoo : Nothing can escape,
The Horse, the Dog, ass, fox, ferret, and the ape.
Monsieur de Gallia, writes all night till noon,
Commending highly Tennis or Balloon.
Anothers Muse as high as Luna flies,
In praise of hoarseness, dropsies, and bleary-eyes.
The Gout, Sciatica, scabbed hams, small legs:
Of thread-bare cloaks, a jews-trump, or poached eggs.
One, all his wit at once, in Rhyme discloses
The admirable honor of red-noses:
And how the nose magnificent doth bare
A tincture, that did never color fear.
One doth hear of it throughout our coast,
The virtue of muld-sack, and ale and toast.
Another takes great pains with ink and pen,
Approving fat men are true honest men.
One makes the haughty vauty welkin ring
In praise of Custards, and a bag-pudding.
Another, able scribbles ink and paper,
Exalting Dancing, makes his Muse to caper.

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Anothers humor will nothing allow
To bee more profitable then a Cow,
Licking his lips, in thinking that his time
is milk, cheese, butter, whey, whig, curds, and creame,
Leather and Veal, and that which is most chief
Tripes, chitterlings, or fresh powdered beef.
A number have contagiously rehearsed
And on Tobacco vapourized and versed,
Maintaining that it was a drug divine
Fit to be served by all the Sisters nine.
Yet this much of it, I shall ever think,
The more men stir in it, the more 'twill stink.
A learned Knight, of much esteem and worth,
A pamphlet of a Privy did set forth,
Which strong breathed Ajax was well liked, because
Twas writ with wit and did deserve applause.
One wrote the Nightingale and laboring Ant,
Another of the Flea and the Elephant.
Tom Nash a witty pamphlet did indite
In praise of Herrings, both the red and write.
And some have writ of Maggots and of Flies
A world of fables, fooleries, and lies.
And this rare Hempseed that such profit brings,
To all estates of subjects, and of Kings,
Which rich commodity if man should lack,
He were not worth a shirt unto his back.
And shall it no triumphant honor have,
But lie dead, buried in oblivion's grave?
Some critics will perhaps my writing tax
With falsehood, and maintain their shirts are flax,
To such as those, my answer shall be this,
That Flax the male and Hemp the female is,
And their engineering procreative seed
A thousand thousand helps for man doth breed.
And as a man by glancing up his eye
Sees in the air a flock of wild Geese fly:
And duck, and woodcocks, of both sexes be
Though men do name but one, for beauty.



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There's ganders amongst the geese, hens with the cocks,
Drakes with the ducks, all male and female stocks,
The Ewe, the Ram, the Lamb, and the fat weather,
In general are called sheep together.
Harts, Stags, Bucks, Doe's, Hinds, Roes, Fawns, everywhere
Are in the generality called Deer.
So Hemp and Flax, or which you list to name
Are male and female, both one, and the same.
Those that against these comparisons divide,
And will not with my lines be satisfied,
Let them imagine ever they do condemn
I love to play the fool with such as them.
The cause why Hempseed hath endured this wrong
And hath its worthy praise obscured so long,
I do suppose it to be only this
That Poets know their insufficience is,
That were earth Paper, and Sea ink, they know
It were not enough great Hempseeds worth to show.
I muse the Pagans, with variety,
Of godless Gods, made it no Deity.
The Egyptians to a Bull, they Apes named
A temple most magnificent they framed,
The Ibis, Crocodile, a cat, a dog,
The Hippopotamus, beetles, or a frog.
Ichneumons, dragons, the wolf, asp, eel, and Ram,
(Base beastly gods, for such cursed sons of Cham,)
Who were so with Idolatry misled,
They worshiped Onions, and a garlic head.
King Jeroboam for his gods did take,
Two golden calves, and the true God forsake.
The Philistines, and the Assyrians,
The Persians, and Babylonians,
Samaritans, and the Arabians,
The Thebans, Spartans, and Athenians,
The Indians, Parthians, and the Libyans
The Britain's, Galileans, and Hibernians :
Since the first Chaos, or creation
Idolatry hath crept in every Nation,
And as the devil did mens minds inspire,
Some worshiped, earth, some air, or water, fire,

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Winds, Rivers, Rainbow, Stars, and Moon and Sun:
Ceres, and Bacchus riding on his tun,
Mars, Saturn, Love, Apollo, Mercury ;
Priapus and the Queen of lechery,
Vulcan, Diana, Pluto, Proserpine,
Pomona, Neptune, and Pans piping shrine:
Old Beldam Berecynthia : Stones and Trees
Bewitched creatures worshiped on their knees.
Baal, Beelzebub, Nisroth, the Devil, and Dagon,
Ashtaroth, Rimmon, Belus, Bell, the Dragon:
Flies, fools, hawks, madmen; any thing they saw:
Their very Privies they did serve with awe:
And they did sacrifice at sundry feasts
Their children unto devils, stocks, stones and beasts.
Oh had these men the worth of Hempseed known,
Their blinded zeal (no doubt) they would have shown
In building Temples, and would alters frame,
Like Ephesus to great Dianaes name.
And therefore Merchants, Mariners, people all
Of all trades, on your marrow bones down fall:
For you could neither rise, or bite or sup,
If noble Hempseed did not hold you up.
And Reader now I think it is fit time
To come unto the matter with my rhyme.
But judge not till you have well read and scanned.
And asked your selves if you do understand:
And if you can, do but this favor shew
Make no ill faces, cry not tush and mew:
For though I dare not brag, I dare maintain
True censurers will judge I have tane pain.
Unto the wife I humbly do submit:
For those that play the fools for want of wit,
My poor revenge against them still shall be,
I'll laugh at them whilst they do scoff at me.


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THE PRAISE OF HEMP-SEED:

Sweet sacred Muses, my invention raise
unto the life, to write great Hempseeds praise.
This grain grows to a stalk, whose coat or skin
Good industry doth hatchel, twist, and spin,
And for mans best advantage and avails
It makes clothes, cordage, halters, ropes and sails.
From this small Atom, mighty matters springs,
It is the Art of navigation's wings;
It spreads aloft, the lofty sky it scales,
Flies over the great Leviathan and Whales,
Dives to the boundless bottom of the deep,
Where Neptune doth amongst dreadful monsters keep.
From Pole to pole, it cuts both Seas and Skies,
From the orient to the occident it flies.
Kings that are sundried fair, by Seas and Lands,
It makes them in a manner to shake hands.
It fills our Land with plenty wonderful,
From the Eastern Indies from the great Mogul,
From France, from Portugal, from Venice, Spain,
From Denmark, Norway, it scuds over the main,
Unto this Kingdom it doth wealth accrue
From beyond China, far beyond Peru.
From Belgian, Alemania, the West Indies, and
From Guinea, Binea, Island, Newfound-land,