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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: cruelty and their greed of gold, and he listened eagerly, though I
think that he believed little of what I said, for his fear had made
him very suspicious. When I had done, he spoke and said:
'Why do they come here to Anahuac?'
'I fear, O king, that they come to take the land, or at the least
to rob it of all its treasure, and to destroy its faiths.'
'What then is your counsel, Teule? How can I defend myself against
these mighty men, who are clothed in metal, and ride upon fierce
wild beasts, who have instruments that make a noise like thunder,
at the sound of which their adversaries fall dead by hundreds, and
who bear weapons of shining silver in their hands? Alas! there is
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