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A Portuguese fleet becomes the object of conflict between Roman gods.

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“See in Ceylon that Peak so stark, so gaunt, shooting high o’er the clouds or mocking sight: The native peoples hold it sacrosanct for the famed Stone where print of foot is pight: O’er lone Maldivia’s islets grows the plant, beneath profoundest seas, of sov’ereign might; whose pome of ev’ry Theriack is confest by cunning leech of antidotes the best.

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