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Updated: May 20, 2025
Every one of the three smeltings that are practised here every two years produces about 250,000 pesos, in San German about 186,000 pesos. But the amounts fluctuate. "The product of pearls is uncertain. Since the advent of the Jerome fathers the business has been suspended until the arrival of your Highness.
On August 8th of the same year the officers themselves wrote: " ... The last smeltings have produced little gold. Many Indians have died from disease caused by the hurricane as well as from want of food...." To readjust the proportion of Indians according to the position or other claims of each individual, new distributions were resorted to.
The first mention of the occurrence of a hurricane in this island we find in a letter from the crown officers to the king, dated August 8, 1515, wherein they explain: " ... In these last smeltings there was little gold, because many Indians died in consequence of sickness caused by the tempest as well as from want of food ..."
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