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The native people with whom the Europeans trade, she says, are creative: "we dealt with them with beads of all colors, knives, axes, pins and needles." They wear beaded aprons "as Adam and Eve did the fig leaves." The people, she continues, are...
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The story’s narrator remains unnamed throughout, but from the text, we know that the narrator is a white, female, British colonist in the South American country where much of the story takes place.
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