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Tres divis?es, compostas de naus, caravelas e gale?es, capitaneadas pelo Gama, d?o as velas ao vento e singram para o Oriente.

Tributa o rei de Quil?a, contrata paz e amizade em Cochim e Cananor, inflige severissimo castigo ao rei e cidade de Calecut, recebe embaixadas de diversos principes, e, coberto de gloria, vem entrar no Tejo, entregando a el-rei o oiro de Quil?a, que, fabricado em monumental custodia, ? offerecido pelo venturoso monarcha ao mosteiro de Santa Maria de Belem.

Contempla a Europa em extatica admira??o o espectaculo que offerece um t?o pequeno povo; pequeno contado o numero de individuos que o comp?em, grande pelo valor e audacia que provam nos arrojados commettimentos.

S? o turco sobresaltado padece desde logo as terriveis consequencias de tal descobrimento. S? a senhoria de Veneza experimenta o golpe profundo que lhe descarreg?mos no seu commercio. Por isso a Turquia e Veneza, dando as m?os mais uma vez, ligam-se agora contra os portuguezes na India. Iam estes alargando as rela??es com estender o conhecimento, com ganhar a affei??o dos naturaes, e com desempenhar lealmente os compromissos contrahidos. Mas, se alcan??ramos o respeito que imp?e a for?a estacionada n'aquellas paragens, faltava ainda, e faltava sensivelmente alli, a for?a que deriva da auctoridade, a for?a que, partindo de um centro, se irradia para todos os pontos, e a todos os pontos alcan?a, illumina e dirige.

Vale muito o bra?o que fere, mais vale ainda a cabe?a que dirige. ? essencial mandar, ? India n?o, mas para a India, um homem que por todos pense e a todos governe. Medita o rei na melindrosa escolha d'aquelle que deve ser delegado seu e seu representante. Entre milhares de guerreiros, entre centenas de heroes, mal se compadece preferencia que n?o venha do acaso. Et up?"

"Bill, those new techniques that manager talked about were old stuff a hundred, two hundred years ago. The applications are new, some of them, but the basic ideas are old.

"The World Food Institute drew off all the scientific, inventive brains of the world, and put them to chasing food. No time for basic research, basic development; just time for tinkering and retinkering old ideas. Been no new basic idea for a couple of centuries. Too much need for immediate, practical results. The well is dry, and it won't be filled again with a reservoir of new, big ideas, not in our time. Been living off the past; and the present has caught up with us."

Before Carter left the island to visit the other stations, I had a chance to have a talk with him.

"Was that sociologist, Ranson, in on this?"

"No. We had to be careful. Still have to be. Just a few of us. That's why the loss of the bird colonies here had to seem natural, or at least a natural accident. And I had to keep clear of it. You can see that."

"Carter, what happens on the mainland when things break up?"

"Won't be pretty. Bad. Very bad."

"For example?"

"You read the ecology book. What happens when a species multiplies beyond its ability to feed itself?"

A dozen new Rollins Islanders showed up a few at a time in Carter's helicopter. We've been working and waiting a long time now, waiting for Carter to come back. For over a year now, our boat has made no crossing to the mainland. Last night, over twenty-five miles of sea in clear weather, we saw the sky lit by a great fire.

I haven't forgotten those rats. I dream about them, tearing one another with bloody fangs.

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