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Ch. 6: Corundum: Sapphires

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SAPPHIRES
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African traveler, is said always to have carried a star sapphire about with him as a means of gaining respect from the barbarous peoples among whom he journeyed. The savages believed that the stone must be a talisman of great power and feared to incur the owner's enmity."
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