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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22931)4/14/2005 5:25:26 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 81343
 
Re: And the story usually given would be to escape from religious and other forms of persecution. But who really knows?

Maybe it was simply greed? The attraction of newly discovered land? Newly discovered gold and other wealth? The urge for something different? Personal independence?


Or just sentenced to hard labor in chains and shipped off to the penal colony down under --who knows, huh?

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