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nichomachus

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9. No, the king did

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:23 PM

Jan 2015

And the native tried to be nice to them -- the Pilgrims had guns, the natives didn't -- not knowing that they were there to steal the land and kill the natives.

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