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TRUE HISTORY.
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What wind blew them thither.view of a great country in the air, like to a shining island, of a round proportion, gloriously glittering with light, and approaching to it, we there arrived, and took land, and surveying the country, we found it to be both inhabited and husbanded:He closely taxes their opinion who hold the Sun, Moon, and Stars to be inhabited countries. and as long as the day lasted we could see nothing there, but when night was come many other islands appeared unto us, some greater and some less, all of the colour of fire, and another kind of earth underneath, in which were cities and seas and rivers and woods and mountains, which we conjectured to be the earth by us inhabited: and going further into the land, we were met withal and taken by those kind of people which they call Hippogypians.A made word signifying horse-vultures, or vulture-horses, or vul- These Hippogypians are men riding upon monstrous vultures, which they
