Word: tarapaza
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...great artery of gold that flowed from Peru to the Isthmus of Panama, and from the Isthmus to Madrid-and tore at it like a tiger. In his most famous exploit, Drake sailed up the west coast of South America, sacking the Spanish seaports as he passed. At Tarapaza, "being landed, we found by the Sea side a Spaniard lying asleepe, who had lying by him 13. barres of silver; we tooke the silver, and left the man." Off Colombia he seized a Spanish galleon glutted with some 30 tons of treasure, casually allowed that he was "sufficiently satisfied...
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