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Rh protection there, the place was so unhappily cut off from the rest of mankind, that even Your 's name and virtues had never yet been known or heard of there.

situation of the country was barely known, no more: placed under the most inclement skies, in part surrounded by impenetrable forests, where, from the beginning, the beasts had established a sovereignty uninterrupted by man, in part by vast deserts of moving sands, where nothing was to be found that had the breath of life, these terrible barriers inclosed men more bloody and ferocious than the beasts themselves, and more fatal to travellers than the sands that encompassed them; and thus shut up, they had been long growing every day more barbarous, and defied, by rendering it dangerous, the curiosity of travellers of every nation.

the least considerable of your 's subjects, yet not the least desirous of proving my duty by promoting your 's declared