"Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned……" — Peter Lewis Allen
"Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity."
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Peter Lewis Allen
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