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-Take as much time as you need.
-Thanks.
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Before it was land, it was gold.
That was the dream.
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To be richer than kings.
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Ponce de León wanders ashore
and runs into a native...
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...wearing a three-pound gold necklace.
He says, "Where did you get that?"
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The native demonstrates in sign
language, "l picked it off the ground."
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Soon, the place is lousy with Spanish.
They killed off entire tribes...
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...forcing them to look for the stuff.
Where there was a Spaniard...
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...there were six Indians
sweating their asses off...
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...but not one nugget
did they find.
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-So where'd the native guy get it?
-He picked it off the beach.
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It washed ashore from
Spanish galleons that sank here.
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The metal came from Bolivia, Peru.
Where they had mines...
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...and an inexhaustible supply
of Indians to work.