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1492

CHAPTER XIX
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Sometimes they scraped it from sand under the stream.

He seemed indifferent to it.

But Diego Colon, coming in, said that it was much prized in heaven, being used for high magic, and that we would give heavenly gifts for it.

Resulted from that the production in an hour of every shining flake and grain and button piece the village owned.

We carried from this place to the Admiral a small gourd filled with gold.


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