They bred widely and there ended up being possibly as many as a hundred thousand goats on Isabella, an Island which is the size of Rhode Island.

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Several thousand arrived in the Moluccas after sailing from the main Indonesian island of Java, over 2, 000km (1, 240 miles) away.

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By the time he started college, at a nearby campus of Long Island University, he had built up a stock portfolio worth several thousand dollars.

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According to the plaintiffs, there are nearly a thousand of these pits in the Oriente, scattered across an area the size of Rhode Island.

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