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(g hard). Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese, was the first European navigator who doubled the Cape of Good Hope. With such mad seas the daring Gama fought ... Incessant labouring round the…
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Third Khanda1. While Visvâmitra was going to repeat the hymns of this day (the mahâvrata), Indra sat down near him[70]. Visvâmitra (guessing that Indra wanted food) said to him, “This (the…
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