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as pets. The name of the island in the book is “California” which probably came from the word “Khalifa” which means “successor” in Arabic. When Cortez reached the shores of what he thought was a large island, he named it California after the fictional island. Only later was it discovered that Cortez had actually landed on the peninsula of Baja, rather than on an island.
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