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... houses and richly decorated temples , and in their dress they studied both ornament and comfort , and they worked cleverly with gold and silver and precious stones . In one of the most useful arts , that of road - making , the Mexicans ...
... houses and richly decorated temples , and in their dress they studied both ornament and comfort , and they worked cleverly with gold and silver and precious stones . In one of the most useful arts , that of road - making , the Mexicans ...
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... house and land ; and there was no buying and selling , and no man could grow rich except the Inca or his kindred , who were freed from work and perhaps had estates of their own . But though the people lived in this way , little better ...
... house and land ; and there was no buying and selling , and no man could grow rich except the Inca or his kindred , who were freed from work and perhaps had estates of their own . But though the people lived in this way , little better ...
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... houses , and lived chiefly by tillage , depend- ing but little either on hunting or fishing . They seem to have had most of the comforts of life and to have shown some skill in handicrafts ; but , scattered as they were in small groups ...
... houses , and lived chiefly by tillage , depend- ing but little either on hunting or fishing . They seem to have had most of the comforts of life and to have shown some skill in handicrafts ; but , scattered as they were in small groups ...
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... houses , growing corn , and the like , Lane almost at once set off with a party in quest of mines . They suffered great hardships , and , after being driven by lack of food to eat their dogs , at length returned without having made any ...
... houses , growing corn , and the like , Lane almost at once set off with a party in quest of mines . They suffered great hardships , and , after being driven by lack of food to eat their dogs , at length returned without having made any ...
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... houses by Henry VIII . had cut off an- other means whereby many were maintained . Thus the land was full of needy and idle men ready for any ill deed . In this strait men began to think of the rich and uninhabited lands beyond the sea ...
... houses by Henry VIII . had cut off an- other means whereby many were maintained . Thus the land was full of needy and idle men ready for any ill deed . In this strait men began to think of the rich and uninhabited lands beyond the sea ...
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