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- A city of west-central Peru on the Pacific Ocean near Lima. Founded in 1537, it is Peru's largest port.
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								But afterwards I learned that she had been purchased in California, and in a few days her nation was made known, by the word Callao filling the place of that of the Golden City on her stern: although her owner appeared to regret that he had been forced to change her flag, as, I understood, he thought he could have done better in an American bottom. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay 
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								"I think some were law papers, and I am almost certain I saw the word Callao printed on one of them." By Shore and Sedge Bret Harte 1869 
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								She had a passage of little over eighty days from Boston to Callao, which is one of the shortest on record. 
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								She had a passage of little over eighty days from Boston to Callao, which is one of the shortest on record. Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869 
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								Witness the rate to Callao, which is no more than that to Spain. The Coal Question~ Of Taxes and the National Debt William Stanley Jevons 1865 
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								She had a passage of little over eighty days from Boston to Callao, which is one of the shortest on record. Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848 
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								She had a passage of a little over eighty days from Boston to Callao, which is one of the shortest on record. Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848 
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								Jesus, in latitude 6° 45 'S., and 1450 leagues from Callao, which is 200° E. longitude from Greenwich. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784 
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								'In Madrid there's a big street in the centre called Callao,' she explains. Home | Mail Online 2009 
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								'In Madrid there's a big street in the centre called Callao,' she explains. Home | Mail Online 2009 
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