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With jocund mien our Messenger to sound, for-that he speaketh well the speech of Spain, he thus:—“Who brought thee to this new world’s bound, far from thy Fatherland, the Lusitan?” “Op’ening,” respondeth he, “the seas profound which never openèd the race of man; for Indus’ mighty flood we hither bore, to win for Holy Faith one triumph more.”