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TRUE HISTORY.
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no matter of verity to employ my pen in (for nothing hath befallen me worth the writing), I turned my style to publish untruths, but with an honester mind than others have done: for this one thing I confidently pronounce for a truth, that I lie: and this, I hope, may be an excuse for all the rest, when I confess what I am faulty in: for I write of matters which I neither saw nor suffered, nor heard He professes himself a liar. by report from others, which are in no being, nor possible ever to have a beginning. Let no man therefore in any case give any credit to them.

Two mountains, one in Europe, the other in Africa, on each side the Straits of Gibraltar.Disanchoring on a time from the pillars of Hercules, the wind fitting me well for my