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Hernando de Soto --- A Gentleman from Elvas

These Spanish conquistadores were some real mean sons of bitches.

This much you gotta hand them, though: They didn't make any bones about it; they just made bones. They weren't there to trade twenty bucks worth of beads for a whole island. They were there to kill the men, capture the women, enslave the whole bunch of them, and work them literally all literally to death digging literally gold out of the earth. They weren't pioneers, settlers, or colonists. They were conquistadores. And there weren't too bashful to let you know it.

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