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O Guarani 16.46 · 16.46

The silver mines

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" O pai de um Robério Dias, colono da Bahia, guiado por um índio, havia descoberto nos sertões daquela província minas de prata tão abundantes que se poderiam calçar desse metal as ruas de Lisboa.

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The father of one Robério Dias, a settler of Bahia, guided by an Indian, had discovered in the backlands of that province silver mines so rich that one might pave the streets of Lisbon with the metal.

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