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The Mastering of Mexico

vided, so that every man should have an equal share with himself. And then he took Cardenas aside and gave him three hundred dollars, and told him he should go back to his wife and children on the first ship that left for Spain.

Gold is commonly the great desire of men, and the more they have the more they want.