Word: terriera
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...plane. The heart of old Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), who used to call international pilots' councils and who sent Gomez and Fernandez to feel their way down to and around the terrible tip of unknown Africa, would have swelled with pride to see Lieutenants Moreira and Neves-Terriera head out over the broad Atlantic for the Madeira Islands, some 800 miles away. . . . Nightfall did not find them in Funchal. Their plane had pitched to the sea, as if crippled, but it was not crippled?only out of gas. And they were hard by the shores of Porto Santo...
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