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2. The local authorities taught him the Greek language, as they had little luck in understanding
his speech.
3. They found out that the foreign mariner had come farther than any of them imagined.
4. He had sailed from remote India, and he maintained he could prove this amazing statement.
5. He offered to show the Egyptians the secret way back to his distant homeland.
6. The Egyptian leaders knew that India possessed fabulous wealth.
7. Indian and Arab sailors knew, however, an important secret about the sailing route.
8. Certain winds, monsoons, would blow toward India for half of the year.
9. These monsoons would then blow the other way for the second half of the year.
10. Thus, a sea captain could sail the handy monsoons on an outward voyage and then sail them
back home a few months later.
11. A Greek sea captain, Eudoxius of Cyzicus, a famous explorer, took the Indian sailor back to
India.
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12. Eudoxius made two successful trips to the eastern world, but the Egyptian tax collectors took
all of his profit.
13. Eudoxius finally tired of this heavy taxation and made thorough plans to sail the other way
around Africa, just to avoid the government officials.
14. He sailed past towering Gibraltar and into the mighty Atlantic, never to be heard of again.
15. Learned people of the ancient world knew the Earth was round.
16. Eratosthenes, a great geographer of the third century 
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from Spain to India.
17. However, he also thought the distance too great for such a perilous endeavor.