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The trade boats joined the caravans at Tyre, unloading their cargos of oil and wine, silver and gold from Rome and Greece alongside great barrels of salt beef and water and all the other necessities of the long voyage.

But the strangest cargo of all, as the traders and caravaners went to and fro packing and loading, was a young woman, given over to the foreman’s charge.

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