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

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“These early seeds abundant harvest bore, and waxt our bosoms braver till we came little by little stranger paths t’ explore, devel’oping each an antecedent aim: The latest dwellers on the Blackmoor shore Austral, whose eyne ne’er saw the Sev’enfold Flame, were seen by us when left behind in turn whatever peoples ’neath the Tropick burn.

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