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

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“In Arab language, which they little know, but which Fernam Martins well comprehendeth, ships great as ours, they say, scud to and fro piercing the waters with the beak that rendeth: But there where Phoebus leaps in air, they go whither the broad’ening coast to south extendeth, then from south sunwards; and a Land is there of folk like us and like the daylight fair.

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