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elanya at 12:05pm on 08/11/2005
elanya at 12:05pm on 08/11/2005"The dildoe-tree is a green prickly shrub that grows about 10 or 12 foot high, without either leaf or fruit. It is as big as a man's leg, from the root to the top, and it is full of sharp prickles growing in thick rows from top to bottom; this shrub is fit for no use, not so much as to burn."
From William Dampier's A New Voyage Round the World, because I have a dirty mind and like cheap jokes :)
ETA: I copied the entire book from the project gutenburg Australia site into word, and it just gave me an interesting error: "There are too many spelling and grammatical errors in this file for Word to display them all." hee! Gotta love the eighteenth century!
From William Dampier's A New Voyage Round the World, because I have a dirty mind and like cheap jokes :)
ETA: I copied the entire book from the project gutenburg Australia site into word, and it just gave me an interesting error: "There are too many spelling and grammatical errors in this file for Word to display them all." hee! Gotta love the eighteenth century!