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His absence at such a critical moment would also remove the one effective restraint on the lawlessness of the Cubaguans and doubtless result in the total destruction of his stores, which were valued at fifty thousand castellanos.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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He quickly assembled all the people he could, and in two or three days came upon the Christians, who were carrying away his hundred and thirty or forty (86) thousand castellanos, and fell upon them manfully, killing fifty Christians, recapturing all the gold while the others escaped badly wounded.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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Her _Obras completas_ are included in the _Colección de escritores castellanos_: a useful biography by Fernando de Gabriel Ruiz de Apodaca precedes the _Últimas producciones de Fernán Caballero_ (Seville, 1878).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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The priest of the town managed to raise about one hundred castellanos for this purpose and Las Casas signed a note for the remainder.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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This last decision was published and a fine of one hundred castellanos imposed on any one violating it.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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They killed and burnt many people, and stole other fifty or sixty thousand castellanos, and the prince, or lord fled to escape death or capture.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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It was finally arranged that the Inca should receive 17000 _castellanos_ of rent and the valley of Yucay.
History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
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The Christians went thither and he received them as though they were his brothers: he willingly presented the captain with fifty thousand castellanos.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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The affairs of Las Casas prospered and he grew rich, though it is difficult to believe that his yearly income from his properties amounted to 100,000 castellanos — an enormous sum, given the value of money at that time, — yet this is the figure he himself has given in his own writings.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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He had one piece that weighed, they said, five thousand castellanos.
1492, 1922
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