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

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“ ‘I am that hidden mighty Head of Land, the Cape of Tempests fitly named by you, which Ptol’emy, Mela, Strabo never fand, nor Pliny dreamt of, nor old Sages knew: Here in South Ocean end I Africk strand, where my unviewèd Point ye come to view, which to the far Antarctick Pole extendeth; such he your daring rashness dire offendeth.

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