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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: That evening I heard Roderigo de Escobedo at an enumeration.
He seemed to have committed to memory some
Venice list. ``Mastic, aloes, pepper, cloves, mace and cinnamon
and nutmeg. Ivory and silk and most fine cloth, diamonds,
balasses, rubies, pearls, sapphires, jacinth and emeralds.
Silver in bulk and gold common as iron with us.
Gold--gold!''
Pedro Gutierrez was speaking. ``Gold to carry to Spain
and pay my debts, with enough left to go again to court--''
Said Escobedo, ``The Admiral saith, `No fraud nor
violence, quarreling nor oppression'!''
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