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“On distant Africk hills a son of thee in Turkish wars shall win the fame of Brave; hight Dom Christóvam shall the hero be, but flesh from destined Death no skill shall save. Here view the Coast where shelter from the sea and glad relief to thee Melinde gave: Note how yon Rhaptus -stream, whose wide expanse natives call Obi, ent’ereth in Quilmance.