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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
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CHAPTER
XI.
Containing
some
account
of
the
Symzonian
engine
of
defence.--Story
of
a
very
ancient
war
with
an
internal
nation
called
Belzubians,
which
caused
the
invention
of
this
engine.--Opposition
of
the
Good
men
to
its
being
used.--Fultria
the
inventor's
speech
in
defence
of
it.--Deliberations
of
the
Council.--Termination
of
the
war.--Sentiments
of
the
people
on
the
subject.
The
prohibition
by
the
Best
Man
of
any
information
being
given
to
me
of
their
engines
of
defence,
excited
my
curiosity.
I
was
anxious
to
discover
what
those
engines
were,
and
why
a
people
so
good,
so
benevolent,
and
so
harmless,
could
have
any
occasion
for
them.
I
dared
not
ask
for
any
direct
account
of
their
nature,
as
I
knew
that
an
attempt
to
induce
any
one
to
break
through
the
Best
Man's
injunctions,
would
be
considered
as
the
greatest
of
offences,
and
cause
my
immediate
expulsion
from
the
favoured
district.
All
my
efforts
to
obtain
the
desired
information
indirectly,
fell
short
of
my
object.
I
however
gathered
from
casual
observation,
and
from
some
manuscripts
which
fell
into
my
hands,
that
in
times
long
past,
the
people
of
Symzonia
maintained
a
commercial
intercourse
with
a
nation
on
the
opposite
side
of
the
internal
world,
beyond
the
equator,
called
in
their
ancient
manuscripts
Belzubians.
This
intercourse
was
kept
up
for
many
years;
for
the
Wise
men
contended
that
it
was
beneficial,
by
enabling
the
people
of
Symzonia
to
obtain
many
things
cheaper
than
they
could
themselves
produce
them.
But
in
process
of
time,
the
Good
men
discovered
that
the
people
became
poorer,
more
addicted
to
idleness,
and
given
to
the
indulgence
of
many
inordinate
desires
and
extravagant
vanities.
At
length
the
unworthy
became
so
numerous,
as
to
endanger
the
morality
and
virtue
of
the
whole
community,
and
it
was
necessary
to
banish
them
to
a
place
of
exile,
in
the
hot
regions
near
the
extreme
limit
of
the
world
at
the
north.
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