| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 592 pages
...with 10U.OOO pieces of gold and silver in his house left it open, only placing a little stick ucross the door, as a sign that the master was out, and nobody...locks in our doors, they understood that it was from fcar of theft; and when they saw that we had thieves amongst us, they thought little of us ; but now... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 pages
...people by our bad example. Crimes were once so little known among them that an Indian with lOu.OOO pieces of gold and silver in his house left it open, only placing a little stick ucross the door, as a sign that the master was out, and nobody went in. But when they saw that we placed... | |
| Gustav Spiller - 1911 - 574 pages
...bad examples. Crimes were once so little known among them that an Indian with one hundred thousand pieces of gold and silver in his house left it open,...nobody went in. But when they saw that we placed locks and keys on our doors, they understood that it was from fear of thieves, and when they saw that we... | |
| John Augustine Zahm - 1911 - 608 pages
...woman was known. Crimes were once so little known among them, that an Indian with one hundred thousand pieces of gold and silver in his house, left it open, only placing a little stick across the door, as the sign that the master was out; and nobody went in. But when they saw that we placed locks and keys... | |
| Hohepa Te Rake, Ettie Annie Rout - 1926 - 412 pages
...bad examples. Crimes were once so little known among them that an Indian with one hundred thousand pieces of gold and silver in his house, left it open,...nobody went in. But when they saw that we placed locks and keys on our doors, they understood that it was from fear of thieves, and when they saw that we... | |
| 1952 - 1054 pages
...known among them that an Indian with 100,000 pieces of gold in his house left it open, placing only a little stick across the door as a sign that the...nobody went in! But when they saw that we placed locks and keys on our doors, they understood that it was from fear of thieves, and when they saw that we... | |
| W. Gordon Allen - 1996 - 258 pages
...Indian who had 100,000 pesos in gold and silver in his house, left it open and merely by placing a small stick across the door as a sign that the master was out, and no one would enter or take anything that was inside . . . when they found that we put locks and keys... | |
| 1923 - 792 pages
...our bad example. Crimes were once so little known among them that an Indian with one hundred thousand pieces of gold and silver in his house left it open,...nobody went in. But when they saw that we placed locks and keys on our doors, they understood that it was from the fear of thieves ; and when they saw that... | |
| Pan American Union - 1913 - 1028 pages
...with a hundred bars of silver and gold piled up in his house, left it, wide open, only placing a small stick across the door as a sign that the master was out and nobody went in. Agriculture was the chief pursuit followed. Cotton, beans, maize, and cocoa were raised by the coast... | |
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