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“He then recounted how, when duly made that wooded Mount, the blacks of whom I speak, his further travel o’er the land forbade threat’ening unless he turn death-wrong to wreak: Then, straight returning, ambuscade they laid, that we when landing a lost mate to seek, might straight be banisht to the Reign obscure, that at more leisure they the loot secure.

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