Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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An Elizabethan mariner reaches Japan under terrible hardships, only to find himself under sentence of death at the hands of his fellow Europeans.
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A street urchin of Lahore takes it on himself to provide a naive Tibetan monk with a hot meal.
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Four knights thought they were helping their King, but they could not have made a greater mistake.
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The Dutch explorer ran across two islands in the Pacific of which Europeans knew nothing, but his chief desire was to get past them.
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A dozy rabbit gets an idea into his head and soon all the animals of India are running for their lives.
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The birth of Jesus Christ fundamentally changed the relationship between mankind and the angels.