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By this time the fathers could both write and speak the Quichi language well, and they went to work to compose in verse an account of the creation, the fall of man, the birth, life, and miracles of our Lord, and His death upon the cross. These verses they set to music, for the Indians were fond of songs.
The first thing these four missionaries, Las Casas, Luis Cancer, Pedro de Angula, and Rodrigo de Larada, had to do was to learn the language of the country, which was called the Quichi. It was no easy task, for none of them were young, Las Casas, their prior, being now sixty-one years of age.
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