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Tenerife
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Definition:The largest and most populous island of the 7 Canary Islands. The indigenous inhabitants (the Guanches) were conquered and subsequently enslaved by Spain in1496. The Canary Islands remain a Spanish territory.
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Hyacinth: It's Bruce - he's going off again.
Richard: Where to this time, Tenerife?
Hyacinth: Sherwood Forest by the sound of it.
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: Driving Ms. Fortescue
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We steered straight for the island of Teneriffe, where we intended providing ourselves with wine. A fresh trade-wind carried us rapidly and smoothly forward; the whole crew was in fine health and cheered by one of the most beautiful mornings of this climate, when our pleasure in the near prospect of a residence on this charming island was most painfully interrupted by the accident of a sailor falling overboard.
Otto von Kotzebue. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
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We set sail from Portsmouth upon the 7th day of September, 1710; on the 14th we met with Captain Pocock, of Bristol, at Teneriffe, who was going to the bay of Campechy to cut logwood.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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