"It is a country invented by colonization. Perhaps this fact makes for extremes, in that there is not the moderating influence of a millennial history. Or maybe it is ‘cyclones’, those visitations that build and build and then wreak havoc, from time to time."
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Country Profile: Mauritius; Lindsay Collen, 1 April 2013
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