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Text from Ronzhina8 - English

    • Islands of sorrow

    • Cape Verde islands, dispersed over the Atlantic ocean, were mentioned as early as by Pliny the Elder.
    • Though they had then the name Gorgades, because Pliny supposed that it was the place where Gorgons monsters lived.
    • It is almost always windy here.
    • Winds carry fine dust with them.
    • The flora is scant, the fauna is poor, so it is not the best place to live.
    • However except mythic Gorgons no one had lived there until the middle of 15th century, when Europeans rediscovered these islands.
    • During the next century the Portuguese made Cape Verde the slave trade center.
    • By the 18th century colonizers completely destroyed almost all the forests for the sake of fuel and established pastures there.
  • It provoked several serious droughts and soil erosion.
    • In 19th century when the slavery was abolished Cape Verde became the water terminal, where passing-by vessels could top up with water, coal and provisions .
    • Nothing considerable happened until the middle of the 20th century, except the drying up of rivers.
    • In 1950ths native people started to think about becoming independent from their mother country, what happened in 1975.
    • But stamp collectors were the only ones who were interested in Cape Verde republic until last but one decade of the previous century.
    • Some citizens serviced either transit vessels that sailed in or not numerous tourists they had then.
    • Others grew up coffee or were busy with production of seafood, which was the base of the export.
  • All the others were looking for the happiness in foreign countries since long ago.
    • As a rule, emigration is a male business: Cape Verdean women prefer staying in native land and raising children after saying goodbye to their man.
  • It often happens once and for all.
    • Maybe it was constant sending-off and waiting that became a source of songs.
    • These songs are destined to once become a sort of one more export commodity.
    • Their name is "the morna".

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