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this, to explore with impunity its
every cavern. Alas! the grim legion
of sepulchral terrors cannot be re-
garded as altogether fanciful; but,
like the Demons in whose company
Afrasiab made his voyage down
the Oxus, they must sleep, or they
will devour us—they must be suffered
to slumber, or we perish.
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