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Establishment of the First Empire. Reluctance of the French Government to publish a record of the expedition. Report of the Institute. The official history of the voyage authorised. Peron's scientific work. His discovery of Pyrosoma atlanticum. Other scientific memoirs. His views on the modification of species. Geographical results. Freycinet's charts.

"I am minded to open my heart to you," he said. "You are young and of a noble stock. Likewise you are a scholar. I am on a mission, Sir Philip the loftiest, I think, since Moses led Israel over the deserts. I am seeking a promised land. Not Cathay, but a greater. I sail presently, not the African seas, but the Sea of Darkness, the Mare Atlanticum." He nodded towards Bianco's map.

The land of Sumatra bearing SW by W to SE by S. Tied rips." He returned the log to its resting place with a quiet smile at the last period. It was all incredibly simple a lost simplicity of navigation and a lost innocent wonder at the Mare Atlanticum of old fable. Neither William nor Jeremy Ammidon was present for dinner.

The sea that lieth on the Northe parte, is called Libicum, that on the Southe Aethiopicum, and the other on the West Atlanticum. At the first the whole was possest by fower sondrie peoples. The two of continuance, ware the Poeni, and Ethiopes, whiche dwelte, the one at the Northe of the lande, the other at the South.

Iam vero quicquid ultra Nigrum flumen est et Agyptum, versus utrumque mare Atlanticum Rubrumque, Athiopes tenuerunt, gens omnium Africae terrae amplissima, extra Africam a vetustissimis Geographorum posita. Divisa fuit Athiopia in varia Athiopum genera; quorum Ptolemaeus innumera tradit nomina.

So that it is incredible, as by Plato appeareth manifestly, that the East Indian Sea had the name of Atlanticum Pelagus, of the mountain Atlas in Africa, or yet the sea adjoining to Africa had name Oceanus Atlanticus, of the same mountain; but that those seas and the mountain Atlas were so called of this great island Atlantis, and that the one and the other had their names for a memorial of the mighty Prince Atlas, sometime king thereof, who was Japhet, youngest son to Noah, in whose time the whole earth was divided between the three brethren, Shem, Ham, and Japhet.