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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MASCARENE ISLANDS (occasionally MASCARENHAS)  , the collective

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title of a
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group in the
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Indian Ocean
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east of
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Madagascar, viz .
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Mauritius,
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Reunion and
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Rodriguez (q.v.) . The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Mascarenhas, by whom Reunion, at first called Mascarenhas, was discovered .

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