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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.