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Sir Josh. Banks K.B.
Sir
I beg leave to acquaint you that I received at Amboyna from Mr. Christopher Smith The Honble Companys Botanist there Two Boxes containing Plants of different Sorts collected by him at Amboyna and the Banda Isles directed for you which I left at St. Helena under the care of the Governor by the particular advice of his Botanist who said it was the only chance left of saving them some of them were then dead and the whole must have perished had then been brought home in the Winter Season. All those that recover
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Feb 8 1798
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