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...dream-land of Alexandrian fables but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange...Island of SOCOTRA ; to speak, though indeed dimly, of ZANGIBAK with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast and distant MADAGASCAR, bordering on the Dark...

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...dreamland of Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange...sea-beds of pearl, and its powerful sun : the first in mediaeval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and the...

...dream-land of Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored. . . . the first in mediaeval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian empire of Abyssinia, and the semi-Christ i;m Island of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar, and of the vast and...

...strange tales of their acquisition, its scabeds of pearls, and its powerful sun : the first in mcdixval times to give any distinct account of the secluded...Christian empire of Abyssinia, and the semi-Christian isle of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar with its negroes and its ivory, and of...

...Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmins, its obscure ascetics, its diamonds and the strange tales of their acquisition, its seabeds of pearls, and its powerful sun : the first in medieval times to give any distinct account of the secluded...