"... Our fresh water waxing scant, and the winds falling out contrary to our expectation, we sought into Valdogosto in the Isle of Osero, which is a safe haven for ships and Gallies. This Osero was first named Asphorus, and then Absirtides, of a Captaine Absertus, who came from Colchis, accompanied with many people, to bring backe Medea to her carefull father. Whose purpose being frustrated, stayed still, and inhabited this land. ..."
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William Lithgow, Totall Discourse (1640), II. 47
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William Lithgow (traveller and author)
William Lithgow (1582–1645) was a Scottish traveller and author.
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