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his head and he will also not feel any tiredness that
normally a person would feel from the lack of sleep.
There is a tree in the European region that if any one
sits under for half an hour during the day or touches it or
cuts a branch or a leaf from it or if they were to shake the
tree would immediately die. In the Sakalibah region there
is a small plant that looks like leguminous with a leaf that
looks like me, if you soak this plant with its leaves and
branches in cold water after washing off the dirt it will
make the water hot like fire and if you take it out of the
water the water will cool back to norma! and that is very
weird. In the region of the Romans they have a gentile tree
that grows on the beach and has a leaves so small in size as
that of chickpeas and the length of the tree is two cubits,
they gather some of the leaves and branches from the tree
then thev squeeze it till some juice comes out of it, then
they take that juice and freeze it then they dry it and when
they put one and a half ounces from it in old wine it gives
whom ever drinks it a strong desire to have sex with
anyone and he never gets bored or tired. In the Indian
regions there is a plant that does not get burned and there
is a tree that if a branch of it was cut and thrown on the
ground it would move like snakes or walk like insects. In
some of the regions where the northern wind blows a tree
that people can hear in the spring and summer seasons a
human whispering and this tree is called the tree of the
(Sun) and the people in those regions say that the tree
looks like a human being and they look like a male human
and none of these trees look like a female figure, only
male.
In the regions of Bakiyan there is a tree that glows like
a lamb at night and if any one comes near it at night the>
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