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In 1567, Alvara do Mendana, with two ships, set sail from Peru and, after eighty days, made landfall in the Solomon Islands. What if the currents and winds had instead deposited the Spaniards, after a few more days, on the eastern coast of Australia? And what if the Spanish followed up with at least some missionary activity on the continent? How would the history of the continent be altered?
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