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The Discovery of Tasmania - Part 2: Setting out into the vast unknown
On August fourteenth, sixteen forty-two, the flotilla slipped beyond the last piers and into the open sea. The morning was grey and humid, with gulls trailing the ships for a while before abandoning them to forge southward. The vessels cut through the water, their wakes carving white trails across the deep blue of the ocean. As the first weeks unfolded, the crew fell into the rhythms of long passages.
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