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Book 9, Line 172 by Samuel Butler (English)

"‘Stay here, my brave men,’ said I, ‘all the rest of you, while I go with my ship and make trial of these people myself: I want to see if they are uncivilized [not dikaios ] savages, or a race hospitable and endowed with a god-fearing noos .’

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