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" 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 a sign that the master was out, and nobody went in. But when they... "
Travels in Peru and India: While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona ... - Page 227
by Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1862 - 572 pages
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Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona ...

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...
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Peruvian bark

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...
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Papers on Inter-racial Problems: Communicated to the First ..., Volume 1

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...
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Following the Conquistadores ...: Along the Andes and down the Amazon ...

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...
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Selected Quotations on Peace and War: With Especial Reference to a Course of ...

Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Commission on Christian Education - 1915 - 564 pages
...among them that an Indian with one hundred thousand pieces of gold and silver in his house left it and 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 we had thieves...
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Maori Symbolism: Being an Account of the Origin, Migration, and Culture of ...

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...
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New Outlook, Volume 5

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...
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Enigma Fantastique

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...
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The Theosophist, Volume 44, Issues 1-6

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...
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Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Volume 36

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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