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THE VOYAGE OF ITHOBAL
BY
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD
Ithobal was the first African explorer we know about. He was a sea
captain of Tyre, who rescued and married an African Princess, and then
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OLD JED PROUTY (A Narrative of the Penobscot).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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