A British vessel, stopping on the way back from India at the Comoro Islands in the Mozambique Channel, finds the native inhabitants in revolt against their Arab masters; and when they ask why they have taken arms, are told, 'America is free, could not we be?'

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A British vessel, stopping on the way back from India at the Comoro Islands in the Mozambique Channel, finds the native inhabitants in revolt against their Arab masters; and when they ask why they have taken arms, are told, 'America is free, could not we be?'" in the context of "Gijsbert Karel, Count van Hogendorp, in 1784, as quoted in "The age of the democratic revolution: a political history of Europe and America, 1760-1860" (1969), by Robert Roswell Palmer." to mean that wisdom is timeless.