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The Lusiad

Note 2 — THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA.

William Julius Mickle translation

The Camaõ. Formerly every well-regulated family in Spain retained one of these terrible attendants. The infidelity of its mistress was the only circumstance which could deprive it of life. This odious distrust of female honour is ever characteristic of a barbarous age.

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