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

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“Eke shalt thou see toforn the Red Sea strait Socotra, famed for Aloë’s bitter growth: I subject other sea-girt Isles to ’wait your steps where sandy Africk seaboard show’th; and yieldeth floating mass rare, odorate, but whence it cometh none of mortals know’th: Of Sam Lourenço see yon famous Isle, which certain travellers Madagascar style.

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