Note 148 — CABINET OF BIOGRAPHY. (continued 7)
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The description which he gives of the place where he spent the greater part of his exile, as doctor Southey justly remarks, applies decidedly to Macao and not to Ternate, as Mr. Adamson supposes.
Cercada esta de hum rio, De maritimas aguas saudosas, Das herbas que aqui nascem, Os gados juntamente, y es olhos passeml, Aqui minha ventura Quiz que huma grande parte, Da vida——se passasse.
"It is surrounded by an ocean-stream of salt water. On the herbage that it produces the flock and the eye jointly pasture. Here fortune willed that a considerable part of my life should be passed."